Question

A ‘build’ directory in my project needs to be deleted and created again after every check out.
Here is what I do which is kind of a long and cumbersome process and creates a large number of unnecessary commits:

$ svn delete build
$ svn commit -m "build directory deleted..." [Unnecessary commit]
$ svn update
$ mkdir build [to create a fresh empty directory of build]
$ cd build [perfom operations in build]
$ svn add build
$ svn commit -m "New revision having following XYZ changes"

Problem:
Is there a workaround to avoid the redundant commit just after delete? I just want to delete everything related to my project inside the ‘build’ directory to be deleted so that I may create new versions of them. Following steps, which I thought should have worked, give problems

$ svn delete build
$ rm -r build
$ mkdir build
$ svn add build
$ svn commit -m "New revision having following XYZ changes"

Answer 1

A build directory is not something you typically want in a repository. What you should ideally be doing is 1) Ignore the build directory from svn using the svn:ignore property, 2) remove or create the build directory using your build script

This way you will also avoid having any (needless) commits in your repository which just create or remove the build directory.