This assumes you have Subversion installed on your local PC. These examples are based on Linux.

This assumes you have checkout out a Subversion directory. Let's say you've checked out files to /tmp/SVN, and you want to delete /tmp/SVN/foo.txt. Delete foo.txt.

rm /tmp/SVN/foo.txt

svn delete foo.txt.

svn delete /tmp/SVN/foo.txt

If the delete is successful, the following will be displayed, which means that the delete is ready to be committed.

D    foo.txt

Commit the delete.

svn commit --message 'deleting file' foo.txt

If the commit is successful, the following will be displayed.

Deleting foo.txt

Committed revision 123456