[KLUG Members] remove a directory from subversion repository

[Richard Harding]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 16:40, Dirk H Bartley wrote:
> I may be misunderstanding the problem. 
> 
> Try this: first move the files you do not want in the repos from your
> local copy of the repos to a temp location.  Then remove the directory
> from the repos with svn remove.  Then replace the directory from the
> temp location removing all things under .svn (find ./ | grep svn).  Then
> when you commit it will want to add but you don't want it to so use
> proset without the full path.
> 
> let's say you have a repository called fame with a subdirectory called
> techie.
> 
> cd fame
> mv techie /tmp
> svn remove techie
> svn commit techie
> mv /tmp/techie ./
> rm -Rf `find ./techie | grep "\.svn"`
> cd ..
> svn propset svn:ignore techie fame
> svn commit
> svn status
> 
> Dirk

Man, one of those I feel so stupid moments. Yea, that did the trick.
Talk about something that should have been an obvious try. Sorry about
that. Thanks for the help. 

Rick