hi, is there a way to remove the test folders and files that i have committed in the google code branch ?
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A:
You should just be able to do:
svn delete blah
svn commit
provided everything is set up.
Matthew Flaschen
2010-02-03 04:14:26
Of course that will not completely obliterate *blah*. You can still retrieve it by checking out an earlier version.
Alexandre Jasmin
2010-02-03 05:07:36
+1
A:
You can use
svn delete your_file
to delete the file, and, then, use
svn commit
to push the deletion to the server -- but note that will not delete anything from the SVN history : the way SVN works is to keep a trace of everything, which means permanently deleting something is not "allowed".
If you want to completly remove a file from the repository's history, it's a lot harder, and will require you to be admin of the repository -- which you are not, on google code.
See this entry of the Subversion's FAQ, about that : How do I completely remove a file from the repository's history?
Pascal MARTIN
2010-02-03 05:40:34
but where will I type that "svn delete my_file" command ? , all i know is right click a folder or file and commit or branch/tag using the tortoise software lol
sasori
2010-02-03 05:56:54
Oh, you are using a graphical tool, and not command-line ;; well, there should be some "delete" action in the right-click menu of TortoiseSVN, that will just run the `svn delete` command *(I don't have TortoiseSVN on my current computer, but the "delete" action should definitly be somewhere in that menu)*
Pascal MARTIN
2010-02-03 06:14:05
daemn, im a windows user, and am reading this online manual about svn, is this svn command line stuff is out of the box ready with linux ?
sasori
2010-02-03 07:34:38
Well, it's just that, on Linux, it's "more natural" and "not strange" to use the command-line interface, while, on windows, it's seen as kinda pre-historical ^^ ;; But graphical clients *(like TortoiseSVN)* only provide a GUI on top of the standard SVN commands ;; so, you should find a equivalent, using a GUI, for most standard SVN commands ;; and, if you're curious, you can still install the command-line client on windows ;-) ;; actually, it's pretty usefull when you want to automate some SVN manipulations *(just put a couple of svn commands in a .bat file, and voila)*
Pascal MARTIN
2010-02-03 07:48:22