You are right. Just added "svn update" and it worked. Thank you. But it
sounds like a pitfall. I am wondering whether someone else has the same
experience.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Collins-Sussman [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:37 PM
> To: Yanghui Bian
> Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: svn copy/remove issue
>
> "Yanghui Bian" <ybi@vitesse.com> writes:
>
> > svn copy turned out a very weird result: The removed file
re-appared.
>
> There's no bug here; you're just getting confused about directory
> versioning.
>
> > $ svn co http://p1033295/repos/svndata/repos_tmp/trunk/projects/
> >
> > $ cd projects/
> >
> > $ mkdir test1
> >
> > $ cd test1/
> >
> > $ touch t1.txt
> >
> > $ touch t2.txt
> >
> > $ cd ..
> >
> > $ svn add test1
> >
> > $ svn commit
>
> Okay, so now revison N contains 'test1' with two files in it.
>
> >
> > $ cd test1/
> >
> > $ svn rm t2.txt
> >
> > $ svn commit
> >
>
> And now revision N+1 contains 'test1' with only a single file in it.
>
> But notice: you never updated. So your working copy of 'test' is
> still at revision N.
>
> > $ cd ..
> >
> > # For I failed to use svn rename, so I try to work around it.
> >
> > # copy the working directory first then remove the original one.
> >
> > $ svn status
> >
> > $ svn cp test1 test2
> >
> > $ svn commit
>
> 'test2' is now a copy of 'test1' at revision *N*, not N+1. Because
> that's what you copied.
>
> >
> > $ svn rm test1
> >
> > $ svn commit
> >
> > Log message unchanged or not specified
> >
> > a)bort, c)ontinue, e)dit
> >
> > c
> >
> > Deleting test1
> >
> > svn: Item is out-of-date.
> > svn: Commit failed (details follow):
>
> That's correct. One of our rules of directory versioning is that you
> cannot delete an item (either file or dir) which is out-of-date. The
> latest version of 'test1' is N+1, but you're trying to delete version
> N from your working copy.
>
> >
> > $ cd ..
> >
> > $ mv projects/ ppp
> >
> > $ svn co http://p1033295/repos/svndata/repos_tmp/trunk/projects/
> >
> > A projects\test1
> >
> > A projects\test1\t1.txt
> >
> > A projects\test2
> >
> > A projects\test2\t1.txt
> >
> > A projects\test2\t2.txt
> >
> > Checked out revision 18.
>
> Exactly what I would expect.
> 'test2' is a copy of 'test1' at revision N.
>
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