Don't you just want this? http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2009/03/sparse-directories-now-with-exclusion.html
Basically use the --depth feature to prune away what you do not want rather than using svn rm. Mark On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 2:59 PM, David Cummings <david.a.cummi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm looking for a way to remove a directory from my working copy > without it causing svn diff to report changes. > > I often use svn co and svn up with --depth files to checkout partial > pieces of a repository. > > For example I have the following repository structure: > ----trunk > |------- folder1 > |------- folder2 > > To checkout trunk and folder 1 I would do: > svn checkout "file:///svn/project/tr...@head" -r HEAD > --ignore-externals --depth files > "/home/davey/ws/project_runtime/trunk3" > svn update "/home/davey/ws/project_runtime/trunk3/folder1" -r HEAD --depth > files > > This gives me a partial checkout of my repository. Most importantly > though, if I do an svn diff I do not see any changes. > > Now sometimes I checkout everything, but then decide that I don't want > certain folders in my working copy. If I remove them using svn rm, and > then subsequently do an svn diff, I obviously see the deletion as a > change. > > So I'm looking for a different command like svn rmlocal that would not > report this diff (essentially removing the deleted dir from the > .svn/entries). I can remove this data from the entries file, but it is > a pain. Is there an svn command that allows me to do this? > > Thanks, > David > -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
