Deleting an SVN branch

Question

I created a branch of an SVN project called  features   and now whenever I try to update said project  it brings with it a features folder  which contains another copy of the project from the branch  Is there a way to remove the branch from the repository completely so that this doesn t happen any more

User · Answer

You can also delete the branch on the remote directly. Having done that, the next update will remove it from your working copy.

svn rm "^/reponame/branches/name_of_branch" -m "cleaning up old branch name_of_branch"

The ^ is short for the URL of the remote, as seen in 'svn info'. The double quotes are necessary on Windows command line, because ^ is a special character.

This command will also work if you have never checked out the branch.

User · Answer

For those using TortoiseSVN  you can accomplish this by using the Repository Browser  it s labeled  Repo-browser  in the context menu      Find the branch folder you want to delete  right-click it  and select  Delete      Enter your commit message  and you re done

User · Answer

From the working copy    svn rm branches features svn commit -m  delete stale feature branch

User · Answer

You can delete the features folder just like any other in your checkout then commit the change   To prevent this in the future I suggest you follow the naming conventions for SVN layout   Either give each project a trunk  branches  tags folder when they are created   svn   project1     trunk       src       etc        branches       features         src         etc        tags   project2     trunk     branches     tags

User · Answer

Sure  svn rm the unwanted folder  and commit   To avoid this situation in the future  I would follow the recommended layout for SVN projects    Put your code in the  someproject trunk folder  or just  trunk if you want to put only one project in the repository  Created branches as  someproject branches somebranch Put tags under  someproject tags   Now when you check out a working copy  be sure to check out only trunk or some individual branch  Don t check everything out in one huge working copy containing all branches 1  1Unless you know what you re doing  in which case you know how to create shallow working copies

User · Answer

Command to delete a branch is as follows   svn delete -m   lt your message gt    lt branch url gt   If you wish to not fetch checkout the entire repo  execute the following command on your terminal   1  get the absolute path of the directory that will contain your working copy  gt  pwd 2  Start svn code checkout  gt  svn checkout  lt branch url gt   lt absolute path from point 1 gt   The above steps will get you the files inside the branch folder and not the entire folder

User · Answer

Assuming this branch isn t an external or a symlink  removing the branch should be as simple as   svn rm branches  lt  mybranch  gt   svn ci -m  message    If you d like to do this in the repository then update to remove it from your working copy you can do something like   svn rm http    lt  myurl  gt   lt  myrepo  gt  branches  lt  mybranch  gt    Then run   svn update

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