RE: How to "un-checkout" from svn

Hi Javir,

Correct me if I am wrong, but are you a Visual Source Safe user ?

I have come across "un-checkout" in VSS. This is because VSS locks a
"checkout" pessimistic locking. Where as CVS, Subversion etc follow
optimistic locking. With optimistic locking "checkouts" as similar to
"get latest" in VSS. All changes are detected only at checkin and
aborted if your version is not the latest in Source control.

Therefore, to answer your question, there is no concept of
"un-checkout".

Thanks
Lakshman
-----Original Message-----
From: Javier Alvarado [mailto:quijotista_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2008 11:23 AM
To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Subject: How to "un-checkout" from svn

Is there a way to really "un-checkout" something from svn? I can't
figure out a way to do it from the docs, and my web searches have been
fruitless.

* svn delete <path> deletes the files from my working copy, _but also
from the repository when I commit_. I don't want to delete them from the
repo.

* rm -rf <path> deletes the files from my working copy, _but not their
information from .svn/_. Therefore, when I subsequently do an svn
status, they are still listed and flagged as missing. I don't want that
either.

What I want is a clean way to tell svn "forget I ever checked these out"
so that I can clean up my working copy. So, what I'm doing right now is
either manually hacking .svn/entries myself or moving the old checkout
of the way and re-checking-out just the stuff I still want.

Am I missing something obvious? Or am I really the only person who's
ever wanted to do this?

Thanks in advance for any help!

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