Re: Possible issue: Out of date output from svn help remove

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:30 PM Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org> wrote:

> On 18.04.2019 18:17, Richard Cavell wrote:
> > Hello. I believe that the output of svn help remove on my machine is
> > out of date. It says that each item is scheduled for deletion. But
> > this has been changed over the years as subversion has evolved. Now,
> > the item is deleted right away.
>
> That is simply not true. Subversion has _not_ changed in the way you
> think it has.
>
> "Scheduled for deletion" means that contents are removed from the
> working copy, but not from the repository until the deletion is committed.

If you accidentally "svn remove"d something that you hoped would stay in
your working copy, you can use svn revert with the file name.

If you want to stop tracking a file (remove it from the repository) but
keep it in your working copy, see --keep-local option.
Received on 2019-04-18 21:27:19 CEST