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Re: bug: svn, version 0.14.5 (r3566)

From: Philip Martin <philip_at_codematters.co.uk>
Date: 2002-11-08 17:56:11 CET

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> > now... if I want to delete the src/misc dir, I would normally use
> > the svn rm misc (from the src directory).. now let's say I am a bonehead
> > and delete the directory from the shell... 'rm -rf misc' and suddenly
> > realize
> > that I had to do it through svn... ok, let's do the 'svn rm misc' but wtf!
> > this command will delete eveything in the src directory :-) I ignores
> > the fact 'misc' is already gone and behaves like 'svn rm *'
>
> Yeah, this is a real reproducible bug, it needs to be filed.
>
> The correct behavior, I guess, is to simply schedule the 'misc' dir
> for deletion in the parent entry. We do that anyway.

There's possibly a related problem. If the user runs update it will
normally restore a missing directory. Now what if the missing
directory is scheduled for deletion, does update still restore it, and
if so does it get restored with the correct scheduling?

-- 
Philip Martin
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