Re: enhancement needed

"Ich Selbst" <ichselbst@gmx.ch> writes:

> I'm currently working on a shell integration of subversion and I ran into a
> problem which I can only solve if some functions of subversion are enhanced:
>
> I can catch an event whenever the user renames or deletes an file/folder,
> ut only AFTER the operation has completed. If I then call svn_client_move()
> or svn_client_delete() to sync with subversion those functions just return
> with an error that the file is not there (anymore).
>
> Could those functions not just ignore the fact that the file isn't
> there and only perform the function? (in the subversion files in
> .svn).

I think this is reasonable. After all, the working file need not be
present to do the kinds of administration work required for these
operations.

> Maybe this enhancement could be implemented with an additional flag
> e.g. "virtual".

I'd argue that this should be the default behavior.

> I think this should be done pre 1.0 cause other clients especially
> addins for IDE's will need this kind of behaviour too. Most addins
> can only catch (if ever) the events of renamed/moved files/dirs if
> the actual operation has already completed. SteveKing

Steve, can you file an issue in our issues database about this?

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Received on Fri Nov 1 17:12:15 2002