I'm trying to delete some files from my repository. First, I use 'svn delete somefile' after which the file is deleted locally and 'svn status' gives
D somefile
as expected. However, if I try to 'svn commit somefile' after that, I get the following error:
svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: 'somefile' is not under version control
I think I made the mistake of deleting the files locally first and so 'svn status' gave me
! somefile
which I suspect is the cause of all my troubles now. When I realized my mistake, I thought that I should just checkout a fresh copy and 'svn delete' the files. Clearly that does not work. What I don't understand is if I checkout a fresh copy from the repository, the file is not only present locally, but 'svn status' does not give any indication of there being a problem. To me, that indicates that the repository should be ok, but clearly it is not.
What's the easiest way to fix my problem? (I'm using the svn command-line client version 1.6.17 on Mac OS 10.7.3.)