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File delete oddities: os delete conflicts wth svn delete

From: Robert North <aqh4uyrs3e02_at_sneakemail.com>
Date: 2003-01-07 20:12:05 CET

I have found the following problems when os deletes are done instead of
subversion deletes.
Dunno if they're known bugs, or not: Mailing list & issue searches were -ve.
Part1 of the bug may possibly be a bug against doccumentation.
Parts 2,3 are most likely buggy failure conditions. It looks like the
subversion commands don't recover properly after a failure.

I'm also not too clear why "svn rm" is required.
I can understand why "svn mv" and "svn add" are needed.
I would have thought it would be easy to detect & remove missing files
automatically.
What am I missing?

Desription of the bugs follows:

*** Bug pt1: os "rm" vs. "svn rm" => trouble. ***
If my working copy has a directory "aa" in it,
and I do:
    rm -rf aa
Then it beomes extremely difficult to make the wc commitable.
For instance if I try:
    svn rm aa
This fails.
The only way I have found to make the wc commitable is to do the following:
    svn up aa.

*** Bug pt2: risks with "svn up aa" ***
If my repository is at file:///home/auser/svn
Then doing the following causes an unrecoverable failure:
svn rm file:///home/auser/svn/aa
svn up aa
I have attempted "svn cleanup" and "svnadmin repair". Neither correct
the failure.

*** Bug pt 3: bad flagging of files for delete***
if i do:
    rm -rf aa"
    svn rm aa
It fails, to mark aa as deleted (as expected).
It then proceeds to mark a few other other files/dirs for delete!
    svn up aa
    svn commit aa
Will result in the files marked for delete now being marked as new files,
not under source control!

I can provide shell logs from an empty repository to the bugs for all
the above.

Bye
    -Rob.

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