Re: how to undo turning a directory into an external?

Any commits done? Externals and directory deletes are (of course)
versioned, so you can always go back to an earlier version of your
repository and backout the undesired changes.

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David Weintraub
qazwart_at_gmail.com
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday_at_crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>  last night, i had a fairly unpleasant experience transforming a directory
> into an external, then trying to undo that.
>
>  under subversion 1.4.3, i removed a directory in my working copy and
> replaced it with an external reference to an equivalent directory in another
> repository, since they were allegedly identical.  it took only minutes to
> realize that they were *not* identical, so i went about trying to revert
> that change, and that's where the ugliness began.
>
>  sadly, i don't have a record of the steps in front of me, but the first
> attempt to just merge the reverse of that revision in my WC gave me an error
> something along the lines of "directory is already there".  i tried a couple
> more things, and finally had to resort to:
>
>  1) checking out the previous revision
>  2) saving the directory in /tmp
>  3) going back to the new working copy, copying that directory in,
>     "svn add"ing it, and re-committing it as if it were new content
>
>  is/was there an issue with simply undoing that kind of operation?  if
> it's worth the time, i can try it all again on a throwaway branch and
> record the results.  thanks.
>
> rday
>
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