RE: How Subversion drove me to shoot myself in the foot.

>"the book reassured me quite nicely that "svn delete" never actually
>deletes anything" which is, of course, not true...

If you read your quote from the book you'll see that subversion behaved
exactly as the book indicated it would:

>The command will not remove any unversioned or modified items;
>use the --force switch to override this behavior.

Note that using the --force flag over-rides the stated behavior

>The problem was that at the point 'svn delete' was run,
>those files were versioned.

>From the original post it appears to me that the problem was the the --force
flag was used to override the behavior. I do not believe that any files were
committed:

'So "svn --force delete" and then start again.'

I doubt there is any history since the commit failed because of the missing
files. The svn rever <missing file name> would have fixed the problem. The
'revert' command requires explicit arguments...

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Received on Tue Apr 18 19:12:04 2006