Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:
> The way I would expect to recover is to "rm -rf wc/foo" and then
> update, but that doesn't work. The working copy reporter doesn't
> appear to handle missing directories in an incomplete working copy.
> Looking at libsvn_wc/adm_crawler.c:report_revisions:309 I see that the
> path foo is correctly identified as missing, but because the
> report_everything flag is set the reporter->delete_path call is not
> made and an attempt is made to access the missing working copy.
>
> Is this a bug in the incomplete=true handling, or this scenario just
> not supposed to happen?
I think the fact that removing-a-directory-and-updating doesn't work
the same way removing-a-file-and-updating does is a bug, though not a
horrifying one.
What happens if one tries to check out the directory in place as a
workaround? Does svn trip up when trying to add its entry in the
parent, because the entry is already there?
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Received on Fri Aug 22 16:25:47 2003