should I raise an issue? commit multiple dirs without parent WC

Hi,

as previously discussed, the subversion commandline client won't commit
multiple directories [from a single repository], unless they have a
parent directory which is a working copy. Under the right circumstances,
it seems to work if the parent is any arbitrary directory, but arranging
the working copy this way starts becoming awkward.

Given that a common subversion repository layout (at least round here)
is:

module1/trunk/...
module/branch/...

people often checkout module1/trunk as module1; given that people
usually want to work with a set of modules from a single branch, this
seems like a reasonable thing to do. For projects imported from CVS,
this is necessary from a build point of view, since this is the same
structure created by CVS - this is a big issue for us.

Anyway, the upshot is that people often want to do

svn ci module1 module2

but can't.

Should I raise an issue about this? I couldn't find one in the issue
tracker. It might seem trivial but in some ways seems to undermine the
very nice "atomic commits" property that subversion provides.

Previous discussion at:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-02/1070.shtml
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/svn.html (section 7.4,
discusses work-around)

Regards,

Dave

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Received on Mon Aug 15 14:41:31 2005