delete a folder from repository and "make it forget" that it had ever been there

[Ur Pocok]

Hi,

Is it possible to delete a file/folder from the Repository? I mean:

- physically delete it (I know it is possible)

- make it forget it had ever been there -> to delete all that file's/folder's repository entries/versioning etc.

An example to make more clear what I want to achieve:

1. I added a folder with subs into the repository (let's name it "Bean") -> checkout/commit/update et. was working fine

2. Just for test I tried to take out the working copy from the versioning -> was done by using "delete (keep local)" or delete the .svn folder from the working copy

3. I deleted the same folder from the repository by "right click-> delete" on it inside the repo-browser -> yet it still OK

4. I create again exactly the same folder (same path of course) in the repository and I wondered that it remembered the revision history -> so it was re-created incrementing the "before delete" revision number instead of being revision one!

Thank you,

[John Laurence Poole]

Please read up on Subversion and what the "revision" number means.  Your question shows you do not fully understand the concept of version in Subversion as opposed to CVS.

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[Ur Pocok]

Hi John,

I hope I do, but easily possible I do not, as I am a newbie in TortoiseSVN (or in Subversion at all).

Nevertheless I try to describe more thoroughly my starting point, and what I want to achieve

Please note: I do not want to use SVN for it’s usual purpose, a programming project, but to manage testprogram’s files on multiple test equipment

So my starting point:

-        Created a repository in a folder “Repository” -> it is totally empty, without the usual branches, etc folders

-        I create the folder structure for each machine like this

o   Repository\”machine1serialnumber”\Data\

o   Repository\”machine2serialnumber”\Data\

-        Inside each “Repository\”machine1serialnumber”\Data\”  I added all the subfolders/files I want to have to be versioned

-        Checked out the working copies

-        Yet, only for test purpose and to learn I did multiple modification on the WCs (commit, add, delete, whatever) -> now my “machine1serialnumber”’s revision is at 60 for e.g.: in the repo

My problem:

-        My repository folder “Repository\”machine1serialnumber”\Data\”  became corrupted (imaginary case, yet…), or I simply do something stupid

-        I take out the Working copy of the “Repository\”machine1serialnumber”\Data\”  under version control

-        Delete the ”machine1serialnumber”\Data\”   folder structure from the repository

-        Recreate the same structure in the repo (I want to have the same again, as better identification – serial nbr -, and standardization)

-        The recreated folder structure’s revision number will be 61 instead of 1

What I want to achieve:

-        To delete such whole folder structure (”machine1serialnumber”\Data\”  ) from the Repo

-        To be able to recreate the same structure (same folder names) with clean sheets

If you say, this is not possible to achieve, please be patient and try to enlighten me whyJ

2020. május 4., hétfő 17:40:54 UTC+2 időpontban John Laurence Poole a következőt írta:

Please read up on Subversion and what the "revision" number means.  Your question shows you do not fully understand the concept of version in Subversion as opposed to CVS.

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 2:03 AM Ur Pocok via TortoiseSVN <tortoisesvn+APn2wQdkAkBKNtkg-gIzaI_AK6ZulMOWFwWidi2rgAAv35Jyu0uW@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible to delete a file/folder from the Repository? I mean:

- physically delete it (I know it is possible)

- make it forget it had ever been there -> to delete all that file's/folder's repository entries/versioning etc.

An example to make more clear what I want to achieve:

1. I added a folder with subs into the repository (let's name it "Bean") -> checkout/commit/update et. was working fine

2. Just for test I tried to take out the working copy from the versioning -> was done by using "delete (keep local)" or delete the .svn folder from the working copy

3. I deleted the same folder from the repository by "right click-> delete" on it inside the repo-browser -> yet it still OK

4. I create again exactly the same folder (same path of course) in the repository and I wondered that it remembered the revision history -> so it was re-created incrementing the "before delete" revision number instead of being revision one!

Thank you,

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[John Laurence Poole]

Please read http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.basic.html

On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 2:03 AM Ur Pocok via TortoiseSVN <tortoisesvn+APn2wQdkAkBKNtkg-gIz...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi,

Is it possible to delete a file/folder from the Repository? I mean:

- physically delete it (I know it is possible)

- make it forget it had ever been there -> to delete all that file's/folder's repository entries/versioning etc.

An example to make more clear what I want to achieve:

1. I added a folder with subs into the repository (let's name it "Bean") -> checkout/commit/update et. was working fine

2. Just for test I tried to take out the working copy from the versioning -> was done by using "delete (keep local)" or delete the .svn folder from the working copy

3. I deleted the same folder from the repository by "right click-> delete" on it inside the repo-browser -> yet it still OK

4. I create again exactly the same folder (same path of course) in the repository and I wondered that it remembered the revision history -> so it was re-created incrementing the "before delete" revision number instead of being revision one!

Thank you,

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[David Balažic]

Revision number in SVN is basically a "commit counter".

If the repo is at revision 88 and you add an new file, the file will have revision number 89. (the same will be true if you commit an other kind of change - the rev num is increased by one, the new changes "are in" the new revisions, while the previous revision number has the previous state, without the said committed changes)

More correctly, the revision number belongs to the repo, not the file. The file just happens to exist in revision 89 (and not earlier) and later (until you delete it, then in following revisions it wont exist; you can later add a new file with same name, it will be unrelated to the old one).

Regards,

David

[Ur Pocok]

I got the point!

Thanks David!