Re: svn rmdir

Francis Irving <francis@flourish.org> writes:
> Why is there a "svn mkdir" to make a directory, but not "svn rmdir" to
> remove it? It seems that I have to use "svn rm" to remove a directory -
> this seems inconsistent with the Unix shell.

It's different because we version the history, so the old dir (with
all its contents & subtrees) is still there in the revision history.
Because of this, we feel simple 'rm' is appropriate even for
directories.

-K

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Received on Tue Aug 12 06:25:26 2003