Re: R: R: Subclipse "Checkout as..." (strange?) working

Alvin Thompson <alvin@thompsonlogic.com> wrote on 08/03/2005 12:52:12 PM:

> Mark Phippard wrote:
> > Your project was hardly unusable, all you had to do was right-click,
> > choose Properties and define the Java Build Path. The .classpath file

> > would then be recreated. You also have the option of copying the file

> > somewhere before the checkout deletes it.
>
> yup, i did something similar. i meant it was unusable 'as is'. so it is
> subversion itself that deletes the current contents of the folder? why?

No, Subclipse deletes it. It does so because the svn checkout command
will fail if it encounters a file/folder of the same name. Short of doing
a check on every local file, we have no way to know if this is going to
happen, so we clean out the project folder before we issue the checkout
command.

The enhancement that Subversion is considering is just making the checkout
process overlay an existing file/folder. Another alternative is to
preserve the existing file, but still create the pristine version. Either
way would work nicely for us.

Mark

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Received on Thu Aug 4 02:55:18 2005