On Dec 1, 2008, at 19:05, Geoffrey Plitt wrote:
> i've used SVN for 4+ years, and i've got an issue with deleted
> admin folders.
>
> I used SVN to store audio documents created by several Apple/Mac
> apps (GarageBand, Logic) I use. These apps (there are probably
> others, but i verified it with these 2) tend to delete the
> subversion admin folder. I'm not sure why, and it seems to not
> depend on whether I use the "period" or "underscore" prefix
> options. The apps just delete everything in the folder that they
> don't want in there, I guess.
First off: I imagine you're talking about "documents" which are
technically directories, or "bundles" as Apple calls them, rather
than plain files.
The issue I think it's not that the app is deliberately removing
the .svn directory. Rather it's that to save the "document", it first
creates an entirely new directory/bundle in a temporary location,
puts all the current data in it, then removes the old document/bundle
(along with its .svn directory and anything else the app doesn't know
about, unfortunately) and moves the new document/bundle in place.
Apple already fixed Xcode to preserve the .svn directory in these
cases. Apple could make similar changes to their other applications.
You could file bugs with Apple.
http://bugreport.apple.com
> Once the admin folder is gone, it should be dead-simple for SVN to
> restore it. Why isn't this possible yet? I looked around and the
> only recommendations are to move the folders contents to another
> location, then svn-update (which could take a long time if there
> are a lot of files), then move the contents back in. I have to do
> this every single time I save the project in these applications.
>
> Any other workarounds? Or is the SVN team working on a better way
> to restore admin folders?
Actually Subversion recently (Subversion 1.5) got the ability to
check out and update over an existing directory. So I think you can
do this:
svn update --force path/to/your/document
And it will recreate the .svn directory.
On the other hand, I believe there is a plan to totally rewrite the
working copy code, so that .svn directories aren't strewn into every
directory (and thus every document bundle). Once that's done, this
issue fixes itself.
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Received on 2008-12-02 02:29:29 CET