Re: 'svnadmin create' can blow away your repository

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:56:01PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> "B. W. Fitzpatrick" <fitz@red-bean.com> writes:
> > If you pass the path of an existing repository to 'svnadmin create',
> > svnadmin quietly blows away the repository. Shouldn't this throw an
> > error or require a --force flag or something?
>
> Yes, absolutely. (shiver)
>
> Want to fix it?

Hunh? I don't understand. svn_fs_create_berkeley() creates a directory right
off the bat. If the directory exists, then it just bails.

What is the actual symptom here? Is it the db/ part that gets blown, or
other parts of the repos area?

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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