Re: Behavior of svn remove on sparse directory.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Rui, Guo <timmyguo_at_mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:

> I'm just considering the behavior of 'svn remove' on sparse directory and find
> something bad in it. I just demonstrate the problem first.
>
> svn co --depth empty http://server/greek_tree wc
> cd wc
> svn up --depth files A
> svn rm A
>
> In this example, I have a partial copy of A directory in the greek tree. And
> then I remove the directory A. After commit, the entire A tree will gone. This
> seems nature at first. However, after a second thought, the remove operation
> will affect more than user can see, which is quite dangerous. I know that
> nothing is really unrecoverable in the circumstance of version management. But
> I think it will not be a good user experience for the user to find out that
> him did something bad just because subversion opened the dangerous door and
> did not remind him.

I personally do not agree this is a problem. If a user removes a
directory, what other expectation would they possibly have?
Additionally, someone may have specifically used the sparse
directories feature so that they could do this sort of operation
without having to checkout a bunch of files and subdirectories.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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