Re: Why do commands fail when a file is unknown to svn?

On Mar 4, 2004, at 2:39 PM, C.A.T.Magic wrote:

>
> why not provide an extra flag like
> svn --ignore-unknown-files

Adding more switches is not the answer. The problem here is explicitly
(via shell expansion) asking svn to operate on a file not under svn
control. If you do

$ svn st -v .

instead of

$ svn st *

you won't have the problem mentioned here.

> btw, is there something like a
> ".svnrc" file like it is with the
> ".cvsrc" where you can put configurations
> like zip compression rate etc. ?

Please read the book. http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

-Fitz

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Received on Thu Mar 4 22:30:19 2004