svn delete — Delete an item from a working copy or the repository.
svn delete [TARGET...]
Items specified on the command line are scheduled for deletion upon the next commit. Files (and directories that have not been committed) are immediately removed from the working copy. The command will not remove any unversioned or modified items; use the --force switch to override this behavior.
If run on an URL, the item is deleted from the repository via an immediate commit.
del, remove, rm
Working copy if operating on files, Repository if operating on URLs
Only if operating on URLs
--force --force-log --message (-m) TEXT --file (-F) FILE --quiet (-q) --targets FILENAME --username USER --password PASS --no-auth-cache --non-interactive --encoding ENC
Using svn to delete a file from your working copy merely schedules it to be deleted. When you commit, the file is deleted in the repository.
$ svn delete myfile D myfile $ svn commit -m "Deleted file 'myfile'." Deleting myfile Transmitting file data . Committed revision 14.
Deleting a URL, however, is immediate, so you have to supply a log message:
$ svn delete -m "Deleting file 'yourfile'" file:///tmp/repos/test/yourfile Committed revision 15.
Here's an example of how to force deletion of a file that has local mods:
$ svn delete over-there subversion/clients/cmdline/delete-cmd.c:47: (apr_err=195006) svn: Attempting restricted operation for modified resource svn: Use --force to override this restriction subversion/libsvn_client/delete.c:90: (apr_err=195006) svn: 'over-there' has local modifications $ svn delete --force over-there D over-there