Re: Minor annoyance in svn add

Rafael Garcia-Suarez <raphel.garcia-suarez@hexaflux.com> writes:
> $ mkdir -p foo/bar
> $ svn add foo/bar foo
> svn: No such file or directory
> svn: svn_io_file_open: can't open `foo/.svn/lock'
>
> The order of arguments to svn add is important.
> This is a minor annoyance, but I can harm programs
> that generate and perform svn commands automatically,
> and sometimes svn add -R is not an option.
>
> The obvious kludgy hack to solve this partially
> is to sort the targets to svn add by length. (I propose
> this hack, but I don't like it.)

Where length is measured by number of components, yeah... Might work.

Rafael, can you file an issue for this? Thanks.

-K

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Received on Fri Oct 25 18:06:04 2002