use an
svn status
it will list changes with the working copy. (deleted files start with a ! )
Then, you can :
svn delete file_to_del1 file_to_del2 etc
and finally commit
You can also write a little snippet to automate this:
svn status | grep '^!' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn delete
And eventually add an alias :
alias svn_precommit="svn status | grep '^!' | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn delete"
If you need to support @ / spaces in file names you need to complicate the script (you should not use those chars in filenames but sometimes thats a decision that has been done by someone else) – you can use this in your .bashrc directly:
svn_prepare_del() {
svn st | grep '^!' | awk '{$1=""; print " --force \""substr($0,2)"@\"" }' | xargs svn delete
}