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Re: Status of children of replaced directories

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 13:41:52 +0100

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:28:59PM +0000, Philip Martin wrote:
> Suppose I have a checkout containing a versioned directory A that
> contains a child A/f. If I delete A the status shows:
>
> $ svn st
> D A
> D A/f
>
> If I now copy some other directory to replace A and the copied directory
> also has a child f, then status shows:
>
> $ svn st
> R + A
>
> That looks correct to me, the replacement hides the deleted child. If
> the copied directory also contains a child g and I delete it within the
> copy, then status shows
>
> $ svn st
> R + A
> D A/g
>
> which also looks correct.
>
> However if the copied directory does not contain a child f then the
> status of the deleted A/f shows through after the replacement:
>
> $ svn st
> R + A
> D A/f
>
> and if I delete the copied child g then status shows:
>
> $ svn st
> R + A
> D A/f
> D A/g
>
> I think both of those are wrong, the deleted A/f should be hidden by the
> replacement. The delete of A/f is fundamentally different to the delete
> of A/g. On commit the client will delete A, copy the replacement and
> delete A/g; it won't delete A/f.
>
> Anybody want to agree or disagree?

I agree. The deletion of A/f should now show through.
Received on 2010-11-05 13:42:51 CET

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