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Re: Causing export to fail on nonexistant or unversioned targets.

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: 2005-02-28 00:12:49 CET

> John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net> writes:
>> [Should "export"] error out on targets that are either unversioned, or
>> don't exist (whereas we just silently skipped over them before)

kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> IMHO, we can consider it a bug when we fail to error on an explicitly
> named target that we cannot meaningfully process. So your proposed
> change (to return an error saying that bogus-dir is unversioned or
> doesn't exist) seems right, and doesn't raise any compatibility
> concerns in my mind at least.

While you're at it, am I sane in wanting "svn status blah" to return some error
or status code when "blah" is both unversioned and not on the disk? (It is
silent, which implies to me that "blah" is versioned and present and unmodified.)

- Julian

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