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or the repository.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id416133"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><pre class="programlisting">svn delete PATH...</pre><pre class="programlisting">svn delete URL...</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id416151"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>Items specified by <em class="replaceable"><code>PATH</code></em> are
scheduled for deletion upon the next commit. Files (and
directories that have not been committed) are immediately
removed from the working copy unless the
<code class="option">--keep-local</code> option is given. The
command will not remove any unversioned or modified items;
use the <code class="option">--force</code> option to override this
behavior.</p><p>Items specified by URL are deleted from
the repository via an immediate commit. Multiple URLs are
committed atomically.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id416179"></a><h2>Alternate Names</h2><p>del, remove, rm</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id416189"></a><h2>Changes</h2><p>Working copy if operating on files, repository if
operating on URLs</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id416200"></a><h2>Accesses Repository</h2><p>Only if operating on URLs</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id416210"></a><h2>Options</h2><pre class="screen">
--force
--force-log
--message (-m) TEXT
--file (-F) FILE
--quiet (-q)
--targets FILENAME
--with-revprop ARG
--keep-local
--username USER
--password PASS
--no-auth-cache
--non-interactive
--editor-cmd EDITOR
--encoding ENC
--config-dir DIR
</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id416224"></a><h2>Examples</h2><p>Using <span class="command"><strong>svn</strong></span> to delete a file from
your working copy deletes your local copy of the file, but
merely schedules it to be deleted from the repository.
When you commit, the file is deleted in the
repository.</p><pre class="screen">
$ svn delete myfile
D myfile
$ svn commit -m "Deleted file 'myfile'."
Deleting myfile
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 14.
</pre><p>Deleting a URL, however, is immediate, so you have
to supply a log message:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svn delete -m "Deleting file 'yourfile'" file:///var/svn/repos/test/yourfile
Committed revision 15.
</pre><p>Here's an example of how to force deletion of a file
that has local mods:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svn delete over-there
svn: Attempting restricted operation for modified resource
svn: Use --force to override this restriction
svn: 'over-there' has local modifications
$ svn delete --force over-there
D over-there
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