Re: issue 919 solution

At 5:58 PM -0500 6/19/03, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>'incomplete' != 'aborted'. Not at all! It means that the directory
>isn't 100% confident that it has a correct/complete list of entries.

Still now what we have here: we have complete confidence that we've
deleted the entry.

>And the only thing that makes use of this flag is 'svn update'.

There you go again, analyzing all the known code.

>For example... this is how we do checkouts now: we create a root
>directory with a single entry for '.',

... which is to say, "incomplete."

>mark it 'incomplete',

... thereby speaking a truth.

>and run 'svn update'.

Which sees this true state description and does the right thing. Bully for it.

But if you mark a directory "incomplete" when it's actually properly
formed, merely because that same code will not notice its confusion,
trustingly do the same thing, and luck into the behavior we want in
this case as well ... well, you should maybe investigate a side
career in Three Card Monte! :-)

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