Re: [Issue 1751] svn switch may corrupt working copy

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 18:53, marvin greenberg wrote:
> julianfoad@tigris.org wrote:
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1751
> >
>
> Is there a work-around to this issue? I've seen this problem but don't really
> understand from the issue when it will happen and when it won't.
>
> We were planning to use 'svn switch' as part of our process for merging between
> branches. But obviously that won't work if it it corrupts the WC...

I don't think you need to be afraid of 'svn switch'. We've all been
using it for years. Gstein seems to have found an edge case
specifically related to using the '-N' (--nonrecursive) option with
checkout and switch. The -N flag is pretty rarely used, and already has
known bugs, so I'm not surprised.

As long as you stay way from -N, you should be just fine.

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Received on Mon Mar 8 02:42:58 2004