Possible issue: Out of date output from svn help remove

[Richard Cavell <ri...@mail.com>]

Hello.  I believe that the output of svn help remove on my machine is out of
date.  It says that each item is scheduled for deletion.  But this has been
changed over the years as subversion has evolved.  Now, the item is deleted
right away.  I'm not able to build svn on my current machine so I'm unable to
see whether this problem exists in the latest version. Here is my terminal
log:



richard@richard-iMac:~$ svn help remove  
delete (del, remove, rm): Remove files and directories from version control.  
usage: 1. delete PATH...  
       2\. delete URL...

  1\. Each item specified by a PATH is scheduled for deletion upon  
    the next commit.  Files, and directories that have not been  
    committed, are immediately removed from the working copy  
    unless the --keep-local option is given.  
    PATHs that are, or contain, unversioned or modified items will  
    not be removed unless the --force or --keep-local option is given.

    [...]



Richard

Fwd: Re: Possible issue: Out of date output from svn help remove

[Richard Cavell <ri...@mail.com>]

Thanks, Branko. I was wrong.

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> From: "Branko Čibej" <br...@apache.org>
> Date: 18 April 2019 at 17:30
> To: users@subversion.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Possible issue: Out of date output from svn help remove
> 
> On 18.04.2019 18:17, Richard Cavell wrote:
> > Hello.  I believe that the output of svn help remove on my machine is
> > out of date.  It says that each item is scheduled for deletion.  But
> > this has been changed over the years as subversion has evolved.  Now,
> > the item is deleted right away.
> 
> That is simply not true. Subversion has _not_ changed in the way you
> think it has.
> 
> "Scheduled for deletion" means that contents are removed from the
> working copy, but not from the repository until the deletion is committed.
> 
> -- Bane

Re: Possible issue: Out of date output from svn help remove

[Nathan Hartman <ha...@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:30 PM Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote:

> On 18.04.2019 18:17, Richard Cavell wrote:
> > Hello.  I believe that the output of svn help remove on my machine is
> > out of date.  It says that each item is scheduled for deletion.  But
> > this has been changed over the years as subversion has evolved.  Now,
> > the item is deleted right away.
>
> That is simply not true. Subversion has _not_ changed in the way you
> think it has.
>
> "Scheduled for deletion" means that contents are removed from the
> working copy, but not from the repository until the deletion is committed.


If you accidentally "svn remove"d something that you hoped would stay in
your working copy, you can use svn revert with the file name.

If you want to stop tracking a file (remove it from the repository) but
keep it in your working copy, see --keep-local option.

Re: Possible issue: Out of date output from svn help remove

[Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org>]

On 18.04.2019 18:17, Richard Cavell wrote:
> Hello.  I believe that the output of svn help remove on my machine is
> out of date.  It says that each item is scheduled for deletion.  But
> this has been changed over the years as subversion has evolved.  Now,
> the item is deleted right away.

That is simply not true. Subversion has _not_ changed in the way you
think it has.

"Scheduled for deletion" means that contents are removed from the
working copy, but not from the repository until the deletion is committed.

-- Bane