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Re: SVN update question

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:38:43 -0400

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Phil Pinkerton <pcpinkerton_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 08/11/2010 07:28 PM, David Bartmess wrote:
>>
>> On 8/11/2010 5:20 PM, Phil Pinkerton wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to be able to update a working copy after deleting a file from
>>> the Repository and have the file I removed from the Repository also removed
>>> from the working copy when I do an update.
>>>
>>> Is that possible ?
>>>
>> Why would you want to remove a file from the repository? All you should
>> have to do is do an svn delete and it would be deleted from the working copy
>> on the update. But the deleted file will still be there, just not seen in
>> the HEAD working revision
>>
> Because the developers want to delete the file from Subversion Repository
>  and have it removed from the working copy with the next (scripted update) ,
> they do not have access to the working copy and the data in the working copy
> gets deployed ( also scripted)  to several servers, they do not want the
> deployment to contain the file they deleted from the repository.

That's what "post-commit" is for. If they want to update a designated
working copy with every commit operation, it can often be done with a
"post-commit"operation if the working copy lives on the same server.
It can also be pushed from there with tools like "rsync" to offsite
locations.
Received on 2010-08-14 02:39:22 CEST

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