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Say I have a large working directory and I am in the process of cleaning out sections of code that are no longer used. Part of this process is flat out svn deleteing a lot of files. But what if I want to make sure those files are not being used anywhere anymore... if I do svn commit it will commit all of my other code changes which I don't wish to test at the moment, and if I try to svn commit <deleted file list> it says those files are not under version control (I already did svn delete on them).
How can I commit changes to only svn deleted files?
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To remove a file from a Subversion repository, change to the directory with its working copy and run the following command: svn delete file… Similarly, to remove a directory and all files that are in it, type: svn delete directory…
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.
svn delete (del, remove, rm) — Delete an item from a working copy or the repository.
The simple answer is "no", because Subversion doesn't know how to resolve the case when you add a commit, someone else updates their checkout, and then you remove the commit from history. There might or might not be a complex answer involving surgery on the Subversion storage.
Cannot reproduce.
svn commit <list of svn delete'd files> works fine.
You will get svn: <file> is not under version control error if you try to commit changes to a file that has already been svn delete'd and committed. Is there an errant file in your list?
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