Please read http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.basic.html

On Tue, May 5, 2020, 1:48 AM Ur Pocok via TortoiseSVN <
tortoisesvn+apn2wqdkakbkntkg-gizai_ak6zulmowfwwidi2rgaav35jyu...@googlegroups.com>
wrote:

> Hi John,
>
>
> I hope I do, but easily possible I do not, as I am a newbie in TortoiseSVN
> (or in Subversion at all).
>
>
> Nevertheless I try to describe more thoroughly my starting point, and what
> I want to achieve
>
>
> Please note: I do not want to use SVN for it’s usual purpose, a
> programming project, but to manage testprogram’s files on multiple test
> equipment
>
>
> So my starting point:
>
>
> -        Created a repository in a folder “Repository” -> it is totally
> empty, without the usual branches, etc folders
>
> -        I create the folder structure for each machine like this
>
> o   Repository\”machine1serialnumber”\Data\
>
> o   Repository\”machine2serialnumber”\Data\
>
> -        Inside each “Repository\”machine1serialnumber”\Data\”  I added
> all the subfolders/files I want to have to be versioned
>
> -        Checked out the working copies
>
> -        Yet, only for test purpose and to learn I did multiple
> modification on the WCs (commit, add, delete, whatever) -> now my
> “machine1serialnumber”’s revision is at 60 for e.g.: in the repo
>
>
> My problem:
>
>
> -        My repository folder “Repository\”machine1serialnumber”\Data\”
>  became corrupted (imaginary case, yet…), or I simply do something stupid
>
> -        I take out the Working copy of the
> “Repository\”machine1serialnumber”\Data\”  under version control
>
> -        Delete the ”machine1serialnumber”\Data\”   folder structure from
> the repository
>
> -        Recreate the same structure in the repo (I want to have the same
> again, as better identification – serial nbr -, and standardization)
>
> -        The recreated folder structure’s revision number will be 61
> instead of 1
>
>
> What I want to achieve:
>
>
> -        To delete such whole folder structure
> (”machine1serialnumber”\Data\”  ) from the Repo
>
> -        To be able to recreate the same structure (same folder names)
> with clean sheets
>
>
> If you say, this is not possible to achieve, please be patient and try to
> enlighten me whyJ
>
> 2020. május 4., hétfő 17:40:54 UTC+2 időpontban John Laurence Poole a
> következőt írta:
>>
>> Please read up on Subversion and what the "revision" number means.  Your
>> question shows you do not fully understand the concept of version in
>> Subversion as opposed to CVS.
>>
>> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 2:03 AM Ur Pocok via TortoiseSVN <
>> tortoisesvn+apn2wqdkakbkntkg-gizai_ak6zulmowfwwidi2rgaav35jyu...@googlegroups.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to delete a file/folder from the Repository? I mean:
>>> - physically delete it (I know it is possible)
>>> - make it forget it had ever been there -> to delete all that
>>> file's/folder's repository entries/versioning etc.
>>>
>>> An example to make more clear what I want to achieve:
>>>
>>> 1. I added a folder with subs into the repository (let's name it "Bean")
>>> -> checkout/commit/update et. was working fine
>>> 2. Just for test I tried to take out the working copy from the
>>> versioning -> was done by using "delete (keep local)" or delete the .svn
>>> folder from the working copy
>>> 3. I deleted the same folder from the repository by "right click->
>>> delete" on it inside the repo-browser -> yet it still OK
>>> 4. I create again exactly the same folder (same path of course) in the
>>> repository and I wondered that it remembered the revision history -> so it
>>> was re-created incrementing the "before delete" revision number instead of
>>> being revision one!
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
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>>
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>>
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