how do I remove an existing changelist from SVN

Question

I created a changelist by doing...

$ svn changelist my_changes 

... added files to it, and then committed the changelist...

$ svn ci --changelist my_changes --keep-changelists 

... so now, I have "kept" my changelist and it shows up every time I view status.

$ svn status ... modified/added/deleted files listed here...  --- Changelist 'my_changes': ... files that are a part of this changelist listed here... 

I "kept" the changelist for a reason, but I don't need it anymore so I'm ready to remove it. How do I remove this changelist from SVN? I know how to remove files from the changelist, but not the changelist itself.

Answer 1

Remove all the associated files from a changelist and it'll disappear.

Official way

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/15992735/253468

svn changelist --remove --recursive --cl my_changes . 

Manual way

i.e. svn changelist --remove file.name

D:\Programming>mkdir test D:\Programming>cd test D:\Programming\test>svnadmin create . D:\Programming\test>svn co file:///D:\Programming\test co Checked out revision 0. D:\Programming\test>cd co D:\Programming\test\co>echo "hello" > test.file D:\Programming\test\co>svn add test.file A       test.file  D:\Programming\test\co>svn status A       test.file  D:\Programming\test\co>svn changelist mycl test.file A [mycl] test.file  D:\Programming\test\co>svn status --- Changelist 'mycl': A       test.file  D:\Programming\test\co>svn changelist --remove test.file D [mycl] test.file  D:\Programming\test\co>svn status A       test.file 

Automation in Bash

# Remove all files from a specific CL # Usage: svn_remove_cl my_changes function svn_remove_cl() {     svn status |\     sed -n "/--- Changelist '$1':/,/--- Changelist.*/p" |\     grep -v '^--- Changelist' |\     awk '{print $2}' |\     xargs svn changelist --remove } 

Explanation:

• svn status: output all the modified files
• sed: find the changelist and take the output after the CL title until the next CL or the end of svn status's output
• grep: remove the CL titles from the buffer
• awk: remove the file statuses, keep only the filenames (i.e. the second column)
• xargs: put each line as an argument to svn changelist
  (may need tweaks if you have spaces or special characters in the filenames)

Example run

~/tmp/wc$ svn status A       d  --- Changelist 'cl_a': A       a A       e A       f  --- Changelist 'cl_x': A       b A       c ~/tmp/wc$ svn_remove_cl cl_x Path 'b' is no longer a member of a changelist. Path 'c' is no longer a member of a changelist. ~/tmp/wc$ svn status A       b A       c A       d  --- Changelist 'cl_a': A       a A       e A       f 

Answer 2

If you want to delete just one changelist (e.g. my_changes) move to the top level folder of your working copy and run:

svn changelist --remove --recursive --cl my_changes .