I got the point!

Thanks David!

2020. május 5., kedd 12:21:55 UTC+2 időpontban David Balažic a következőt 
írta:
>
> Revision number in SVN is basically a "commit counter".
>
> If the repo is at revision 88 and you add an new file, the file will have 
> revision number 89. (the same will be true if you commit an other kind of 
> change - the rev num is increased by one, the new changes "are in" the new 
> revisions, while the previous revision number has the previous state, 
> without the said committed changes)
>
> More correctly, the revision number belongs to the repo, not the file. The 
> file just happens to exist in revision 89 (and not earlier) and later 
> (until you delete it, then in following revisions it wont exist; you can 
> later add a new file with same name, it will be unrelated to the old one).
>
> Regards,
> David
>
> On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 10:48:29 UTC+2, Ur Pocok 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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