Re: Merging and switching

Julian Fitzell <julian@beta4.com> writes:
> > An argument could be made that if we see an unknown directory, then
> > we "peek
> > inside" to see if it is a WC (root).
>
> It always bugged me that CVS didn't do that... somehow I thought SVN
> was already planning to do this... must have misread something.

SVN should at least have the option of doing this.

"Unmentioned subdirectories", that is, subdirs who are not mentioned
in their parent's entries file, are currently ignored by most
Subversion operations, because Subversion recurses by looping over
entries. We can easily add an option (and perhaps make it the
default) to peek inside such subdirs, and, if they're
Subversion-controlled, do the right thing.

But this doesn't affect anything we're working on right now, and is
certainly not a requirement for Subversion to be useable. Anyone mind
if we just decide this later, after all the big stuff is taken care
of? :-)

-K

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:59 2006