SVN delete file

Question

Hi,

My question is simple,

if i delete a file in a trunk of an svn repository, could i get the file if i ask for a previous version or the file was deleted forever?

Thanks. Best Regards. Jose

Answer 1

You will get it in the previous revision.

Actually, there is no "standard" way to get rid of a file completely in a Subversion repository. There is quite a lot of heated discussion around whether such a feature should be implemented (see this bug report and this blog post on the issue for example).