Deleting a folder within a project in the Repo

[Res Pons <po...@hotmail.com>]

Is it ok to delete a subfolder via Tortoise?  I just did before asking.  It 
was not an important folder and a developer asked me to delete because he 
wants to recreate and recheck it in from scratch.  What other steps do I 
need to do?

Thanks

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Re: Deleting a folder within a project in the Repo

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Feb 10, 2006, at 20:35, Res Pons wrote:

> Is it ok to delete a subfolder via Tortoise?  I just did before  
> asking.  It was not an important folder and a developer asked me to  
> delete because he wants to recreate and recheck it in from  
> scratch.  What other steps do I need to do?

Of course it's ok. If you want to delete a directory or file from the  
repository, then delete it, stating in your commit message why you  
did so. Note that the item is of course still available in the  
history of the repository; that's the point of a repository—to keep  
all changes forever.

If you're asking if there's a way to permanently delete an item from  
the repository, so that it cannot be retrieved, then that involves  
significant extra effort. Such effort is usually only worthwhile if  
the item contains confidential information which nobody should be  
able to see, or perhaps if someone inadvertently added a huge amount  
of data and you're short on disk space. The relevant info is here:

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#removal



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