Re: .svn directories

> Hmmm .... I have in fact violated that presumption fairly frequently:
>
> svn co http://url/to/project1/www www
> ls www
> echo Oops, wrong project
> rm -r www
> svn co http://url/to/project2/www www
> ls www
> echo oops, I'm a real idiot, ain't I?
> ...
> I foresee some endlessly accumulating orphaned metadata cruft
> issues here, too.

I thought of this case, but I won't have it working in the phase
1 prototype. Essentially, SVN should be doing some automated
management during high-cost operations like checkout. However,
this has to be done very carefully so as not to accidentally hose
the user's meta data.

Just as food for thought: How about if the checkout command
first does a quick pre-scan to see if the requested directory a)
is in the index, b) does not already exist? Maybe an error
message or force option could be provided.

Kumaran

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Received on Thu Aug 28 02:19:13 2003