Re: Bug with missing scheduled-for-delete dir

On Jan 9, 2008 4:56 PM, Miller, Eric <Eric.Miller_at_amd.com> wrote:
> > > I provided such a nice little recipe - can no one run a quick check
> > > using a 1.5 client?
>
> > So, we're grateful for the recipe, but we don't need the attitude.
>
> I didn't mean it to came off that way, but be honest - it took you and
> David far longer to type up the replies than it would have to simply cut
> and paste the recipe and responded with a yay or nay.
>
> With respect to the "disappointed" comment - well... That's because it
> is unfortunate that more people don't seem to care about the robustness
> of the meta-data scheme. For me it causes *severe* headaches on a daily
> basis.

Eric, my #1 goal for Subversion in 2008 is to rewrite the working copy
support to make the metadata far far far more robust.

Before I can do that, I need to get trunk (merge tracking) into a
finished enough shape that it makes sense to be making these sorts of
major new features.

In fact, most of the current developers are distracted by the
merge-tracking/1.5-release madness, which has a lot of work left to be
done.

Trust me, nobody likes the current working copy/metadata code. It's
the next Big Thing to fix. But we've gotta get there first.

And yes, I did type in your script, and ran it enough to determine
that "svn up wc" fixed your problem in this case.

And yes, I do care about tools deleting subdirectories. The only post
on my blog that has any significant number of comments (and still gets
linked from random places all the time) is
http://www.davidglasser.net/point/2006/07/30/using-omnigraffle-with-subversion-without-sadness/
which is about how to teach OmniGraffle to not clobber subdirectories.

And if you scroll down you'll even see the comment from the 3rd-party
tool author saying they added a feature to make avoiding this easier
:)

--dave

-- 
David Glasser | glasser@davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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