Re: svn add --force ?

Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@free.fr> writes:

> I see that svn add, unlike other commands (svn rm,...)
> doesn't support --force. I have a suggestion : that --force on
> svn add forces the creation of an empty file if a target doesn't
> exist. This can be marginally useful.
>
> (a little background : I'm writing a tool that import loads of
> patches into a svn repository, and sometimes I need to add an empty
> file, that appears in a list of modified files but not in the diff.)

I'd be fine with this behavior. And your use-case is a good
argument for such, I think. Care to submit a patch and log message?

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Received on Sat Oct 26 19:40:35 2002