Re: default ignores

On Apr 17, 2012, at 13:34, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:08 PM, James French wrote:
>>
>> I would say that it is up to the user to check their commit and if it contains unwanted files then that fact should be visible to them and they can un-add them and set up an ignore if appropriate.
>
> Sorry, but no. A user can't ever un-add something he has committed to
> a repository. And it is an unreasonable amount of admin time/work for
> the administrator to do it with an svnadmin dump/filter/load cycle.
>
>> Silently failing to add important files I think is worse because you simply don't know that its happened until something goes wrong later.
>
> But you just said the user was supposed to check... It is easy to add
> the missed files, but you can't un-add.

Well, yes you can un-add something:

Add:

$ svn add foo
A foo

Un-add:

$ svn revert foo
Reverted 'foo'

There are several places where this information can be found by Googling "svn unadd".

But if you commit the addition:

$ svn add foo
A foo
$ svn ci foo -m x
Adding foo
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 1.

Then you're right you can't un-commit that; you'd have to reverse merge, and there'd be a permanent record of it in the repository.
Received on 2012-04-18 16:41:44 CEST