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How to delete…

May 25th, 2011 by jde

How to delete an entire project

svn delete -m "Deleting old chat project" http://svn.example.com/path/to/chat

How to delete files and folders

cd /into/your/working/copy
svn delete somefile.txt
svn delete somedir
svn commit -m "Removed a file and a dir"

If you delete a file, the file is removed physically from the disk when `svn delete` is executed. But directories are not removed until you fire `svn commit`.

How to undo…

May 17th, 2011 by jde

How to undo a ‘svn delete’

You did ‘svn delete filename.txt’ … ups! Wrong file… need to revert:

svn revert filename.txt

How to undo a ‘svn move’

You did ‘svn move oldfile.txt newfiletxt’… ups! Wrong file… need to revert:

svn revert oldfile.txt
svn revert newfile.txt
rm newfile.txt