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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion
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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion

by Mike Mason
November 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
150 pages
2h 55m
English
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13Removing Files and Directories

Similar to adding items, deleting items from the repository is a two-step process; first you tell Subversion you want to delete the items from your working copy, and then you commit your changes to the repository. Until you commit the change, the delete won’t happen on the server.

As with adding items, this two-step process is important because you are likely to want to commit your delete along with some changes to other files. For example, if you’re using an IDE to manage your source code and want to delete a class, the change consists of both removing the class file and changing the IDE project file to no longer reference the file. You should commit both these changes in one go.

When deleting a directory, ...

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