Re: Removed dir in repos with local modifications result in strange behavior.

Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 12:06:46AM +0000, Philip Martin wrote:
>> Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> writes:
>>
>> It's a poor message, it means
>> Won't delete locally modified sub-directory within directory '.'
>
> But it don't say '.', it says ''. And I would have expected 'server'.

As I said, it's a poor message.

>> That's a different error, it doesn't mention a file. I think you have
>> an unversioned file or directory somewhere under server/config.
>
> If there is an unversioned file, I'd expect "svn st" to mention it?

server/config is unversioned, status won't look inside it.

>> It is true, you ran "svn up" after the revert and it deleted
>> server/config and made it unversioned.
>
> If this were true, server/config should have been removed...

No, because it contains an unversioned item.

>> It's not "strange" it's incomplete (read the docs)
>
> _What_ is incomplete? There was only _one_ local modification in this
> directory. This modification was _reverted_. The repos says that the
> directory has to die. I don't see what is incomplete here...

The 'incomplete' status is one result of an interrupted update.

> Does this mean that an unversioned directory will block updates? You must be
> kidding...

Unversioned items will block deletes, this is deliberate.

I haven't looked at the documentation lately, are these things not
covered?

-- 
Philip Martin
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