On Dec 13, 2007 7:12 AM, Army Research Lab <ckaran@arl.army.mil> wrote:
> Part of my habits for making sure I don't break anything on my own code is
> to keep lots of tags of my entire working copy around as fallback positions.
> I now have several hundred, which isn't a problem as the repository makes
> cheap copies (yay subversion!). The only problem occurs in the case of
> extreme user stupidity, like what I did yesterday... when I accidentally
> started a checkout of the entire tags directory (which, if I hadn't killed
> it, would have required several terabytes of space). My problem now is that
> if I use svn rm to get rid of the checked out files, they will be deleted
> from the repository, but at the same time, if I delete them using the file
> system, then subversion will complain that the files are missing. How do I
> clean the files out without subversion complaining to me?
Why can't you just delete the working copy you accidentally made?
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Received on Thu Dec 13 13:14:56 2007