Re: [patch] add tests for rmdir directory versioning

On 4 Aug 2002, Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> wrote:
> Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net> writes:
>
> > This patch adds a test suite that tries to recreate some of the
> > breakage I saw with rmdir and mixed versioning a few weeks ago. It
> > used to fail, and now it passes.
>
> Can you go into more detail about what the problem was?

It's the one discussed in the thread "reproducible mkdir/rmdir bug?"
last month, including bug 611.

  http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=49357

> From your code I guess it was the problem where a deleted directory
> remained in the working copy after a commit.

There were a cluster of related problems.

 - remove a directory and update, breaks

 - remove a directory, commit, directory still remains

 - remove a directory, commit, update, breaks

etcetera

> If that was it, there are already regression checks, see rev 2568.
> In particular, I remember that when I fixed the bug commit_tests.py
> started to fail, it had a bug workaround which I then removed.

Oh, OK.

I assumed that because at that time the tests were all passing there
must be no test for the buggy behaviour. I'll look at that delta and
see if there is anything I can add to the existing tests.

-- 
Martin 
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