Remove from Cornerstone

Question

(Login - I am not very familiar with SVN, but I was advised to familiarize themselves with it.)

I often delete a file or directory in my working copy. This appears as “absent” in Cornerstone. Assigning a working copy leaves these “ghostly” files (I can understand that you might want to return them one day, but I want them to be from the list of active files, at least).

There is a big red Delete button that invites you, well, to remove ghosts. But in the next commit, I received information that the operation could not be completed. And it looks like that. Selecting "Clear" tells me that the folder is not a working copy of Subversion. I can no longer use my repository.

Can anyone shed some light?

• How to handle file deletion in a working copy?
• How to repair a damaged repository?

thanks

Answer 1

I think the same thing happened to me. (I'm also new to SVN and use Cornerstone). I did a removal from Cornerstone instead of Finder and it seems to work very well, with no missing icon. I get a red D icon, then I commit and there is no ghost file or is missing! icon.

I just tried deleting a working copy from the directory and what! the icon and the ghost file are missing, but if I right-click on the ghost file and select delete, I get the D icon. Then Commit, everything is fine ... there is no more ghost file.

I am updating my version of Cornerstone. I'm on v2.5.2. Maybe something that was fixed in Cornerston? I think I remember that I had the same experience as you by 1 point. I think I left Cornerstone, opened it, selected this working copy, and then clicked Update, and he fixed it, but not sure though ...