Re: [PATCH] cleanup fails on missing .svn/tmp

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:55:08AM +0100, Henner Zeller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tested what happens, if a .svn/tmp directory is missing:
> ----
> $ rm -rf .svn/tmp
> $ svn update
> svn: Your .svn/tmp directory may be missing or corrupt; run 'svn
> cleanup' and try again
> svn: Can't open file '.svn/tmp/entries': No such file or directory
> $ svn cleanup
> svn: Can't open directory '.svn/tmp': No such file or directory
> ---
> cleanup fails, because it cannot remove the tmp-directory it is about
> to rebuild
> (adm_files.c [svn_wc__adm_cleanup_tmp_area()]). So it didn't work as
> advertised ;-)
>

The last time this was brought up, the consensus seemed to be that this
wasn't something we wanted to attempt to clear up.

(one reason was that you have no way to know whether the tmp/ directory
actually was empty before it was removed)

See e.g. http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-07/0217.shtml and
surrounding thread.

Regards,
Malcolm