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Re: Remove items from source control without deleting them

From: Christopher Clarke <tigris.org_at_fuscata.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:56:28 -0400

On 07/16/2009 10:51 AM, Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Christopher
> Clarke<tigris.org_at_fuscata.com> wrote:
>> What do you think about making the --keep-local flag work for everyone's
>> working copy?
>>
>> For example, I want remove myfile.txt from the repository but not delete
>> it locally, so I: svn delete --keep-local myfile.txt
>>
>> Why should this delete the file locally from anyone else's working copy?
>> Why not just leave it in all working copies too?
>
> There is no way to do this without making some kind of major change to
> have this new information stored in the repository. Meaning there
> would have to be a way to know the difference between a delete and a
> delete with keep local.
>

What about adding it as a property?

Or perhaps just allowing svn:ignore to cause an item to be ignored no
matter what? Or perhaps svn:force-ignore?

Thanks,
Chris

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