svn delete (del, remove, rm) — Delete an item from a working copy or the repository.
Items specified by
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. The
command will not remove any unversioned or modified items;
--force option to override this
Items specified by URL are deleted from the repository via an immediate commit. Multiple URLs are committed atomically.
Using svn to delete a file from your working copy deletes your local copy of the file, but it merely schedules the file to be deleted from the repository. When you commit, the file is deleted in the repository.
$ svn delete myfile D myfile $ svn commit -m "Deleted file 'myfile'." Deleting myfile Transmitting file data . Committed revision 14.
Deleting a URL, however, is immediate, so you have to supply a log message:
$ svn delete -m "Deleting file 'yourfile'" \ file:///var/svn/repos/test/yourfile Committed revision 15.
Here's an example of how to force deletion of a file that has local mods:
$ svn delete over-there svn: E195006: Use --force to override this restriction (local modifications m\ ay be lost) svn: E195006: '/home/sally/project/over-there' has local modifications -- com\ mit or revert them first $ svn delete --force over-there D over-there $
--keep-local option to
override the default svn delete
behavior of also removing the target file that was
scheduled for versioned deletion. This is helpful when
you realize that you've accidentally committed the
addition of a file that you need to keep around in your
working copy, but which shouldn't have been added to
$ svn delete --keep-local conf/program.conf D conf/program.conf $ svn commit -m "Remove accidentally-added configuration file." Deleting conf/program.conf Transmitting file data . Committed revision 21. $ svn status ? conf/program.conf $