How can I change svn status?

Question

Sometimes I want to add a folder into svn with svn add my_folder but then I change my mind and don't want to commit this. It seems that svn remembers this pending addition forever! If I make a mistake and move, remove or rename the file, svn status will still show that this folder is scheduled for addition after the next commit and will produce an error.

I have tried svn update and a clean checkout. The problem is, that svn update usually doesn't work, svn checkout not always works and if it does, it is very troublesome.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Try:

svn revert --recursive my_folder

It will undo your svn add recursively

Answer 2

svn delete --keep-local does the trick for files and also should for directories.