Re: Two update notes

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:42:01PM -0500, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
> Kevin Pilch-Bisson <kevin@pilch-bisson.net> writes:
>
> > Hey, I found two (possibly related) bugs regarding updating.
> >
> > The first is that updating a missing entry doesn't work.
> >
> > rm main.c
> > svn up main.c
> >
> > (Don't get anything)
>
> Believe it or not, this is by design. I seem to remember Karl wanting
> to break people of the habit of using `svn up' to revert changes to a
> file (since we have `svn revert').

Ahhh, that makes sense. Perhaps we should print a warning message to this
effect? At least temporarily.

>
> > The second is that updated files get put in the wrong directory.
> >
> > rm cmdline/main.c
> > svn up cmdline
> > A ./main.c
>
> Hmm... did you check out ...svn/ or ...svn/trunk? This may be
> directly related to other known issues.

svn, I followed the instructions on the web page exactly.

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