> -----Original Message----- > From: Nico Kadel-Garcia [mailto:nka...@gmail.com] > Sent: 23 September 2010 12:40 > To: David Huang > Cc: Chris Albertson; users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Best way to "un-version control" a file? > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:43 AM, David Huang > <k...@azeotrope.org> wrote: > > > > On Sep 22, 2010, at 8:21 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > >> But, I did not think until now that I should have excluded > files such > >> as core files and logs and autoconf's cache from version > controls. > >> I now know how to a global ignore and a ignore foe one > directory but > >> how to remove these files from version control once they > are already > >> there. Is "svn rm" the best why? But that will remove > them from > >> the working directory too. I don't want that. > > > > svn rm --keep-local filename > > Which is thoughtful, but does *NOT* get old versions of the > file out of the repository. Unfortunately, that's been > requested before, and has never gotten into working code that > I can find. The idea is called "obliterate", and it goes > against the basic design ideas of the creators of Subvresion: > a source control is supposed to keep all your source, not > allow obliteration whether accidental or deliberate by users.
Users, no; administrators, yes. At the time Perforce added this it was, if I recall correctly, their number one feature request. > > Obliterating it, as things stand, would require taking the > upstream repo offline, doing an "svnadmin dump | > svndumpfilter [arguments] | svnadmin load" set of operations, > and it's awkward. See above. This (well, the equivalent) was what you had to do in Perforce before they implemented 'obliterate'. > > >> Next is these a way to make the ignore property for a > directory apply > >> to all sub dirs recursively. The next project I want to > move to svn > >> is much larger and has many nested directories > > > > svn propset --recursive svn:ignore ignorepattern . > > Also, the very nice "TortoiseSVN" gui is fabulous for doing > just such operations. It's my only excuse these days for > doing any Windows work with Subversion: the tool works really well. > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit > http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ >
