Re: Directory out-of-date (issue 987)

Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:
> Is it reasonable for 'svn commit' to fail with an out-of-date message
> when 'svn status' doesn't show any out-of-date markers?

I think it's merely expediency. If we could be more permissive (while
still being correct, of course), that would be better.

> We could change 'svn status' so that it always shows out-of-date
> markers for directories that are not HEAD, but that is probably a
> retrograde step, as we lose the current information about whether
> there really are new items or not. We could display some other
> out-of-date indicator, i.e. not '*', in this situation. Or we could
> accept that the revision numbers themselves are enough. What do
> people think?

While this is annoying, is it worth solving before 1.0? It could be
tricky, and asking people to update before deleting a dir (or
whatever) isn't such an awful workaround for now.

-K

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Received on Thu Nov 14 16:50:38 2002