Fabian Cenedese schreef:
>>>I thought I´d follow Mark´s advice below and throw the question in
>>>here: Why oh why is it impossible to remove a file from version
>>>control without deleting it in the working copy?
>>>
>>>I know one can always regenerate it from a previous revision, it
>>>would just be a nice feature.
>>
>>No need to regenerate from a previous revision:
>>
>>$ cp -p foo foo.keep
>>$ svn rm foo
>>$ svn propset svn:ignore foo .
>>$ mv foo.keep foo
>>
>>$ svn ci -m "Removing foo from version control"
>>
>>You could certainly wrap the first four steps into a shell script if
>>it's something you expect to want to do often.
>>
>>If it were added to the Subversion client, what would the command be
>>called?
>
>
> cvs is the other way round, default is to keep the file and only rm it from
> the filesystem with the parameter --force. To not break existing svn
> behaviour we could add a parameter to keep the file upon rm, so like
>
> $ svn --keeplocal (or -k or something more general) delete foo
> $ svn commit ...
>
> ...and foo is still available.
Seems a nice solution to me. Actually, what I was thinking about, was
to be able to add a file which is currently under version control to
svn:ignore, so that in the next commit, it would get deleted from the
rep, but not from the working copy.
H.
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Hendrik Maryns
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Received on Mon Nov 28 13:33:37 2005