On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:36:50PM -0700, David Glasser wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Rui, Guo <timmyguo_at_mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
>
> > Just to be a little off topic. During the 'svn add' fix, I gained the
> > viewpoint that simply modify the depth of a directory entry without adjusting
> > the items it contains will not render the wc unusable. I mean, the depth logic
> > can work on it without producing error. I derived this statement from the fact
> > that the depth can be arbitrary mixed. Does this statement correct, or did I
> > missed something?
>
> I'm pretty sure that's not true. If a directory has depth infinity or
> immediates, then Subversion assumes that every child of that directory
> in that directory's revision is mentioned in its entries file (and
> similarly for "every file" for depth files). Switching a depth-empty
> or depth-files directory to a deeper depth without adding the rest of
> the entries will break it.
The crawler contains the logic that dealing with missing items, doesn't it fix
the problem? I'm very clear about the underlying adm-access & entry logic. So
please forgive me is this is a silly question.
>
> ... unless you meant just for making depths shallower, in which case I
> think you're right! In addition, you can always remove a child from a
> depth-empty directory or a directory child from a depth-files
> directory. So I guess the "building blocks" of cropping are "make the
> depth shallower" (which never corrupts anything) and "remove child
> from directory which is shallow enough to not miss it". Is that what
> you meant?
I didn't aware of the assumption of infinity you described above. I just
thought an update will automatically fill in the missed items. Thank you for
clarify the situation. I think this explains why Karl said that I should
always update the depth first before actually remove the items.
Rui, Guo
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