Re: Behavior of svn remove on sparse directory.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Rui, Guo <timmyguo_at_mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:47:26AM -0400, Mark Phippard wrote:
>> 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.
> If you really want to rm the whole tree, just do it directly on the repository
> side. I don't think your sparse directory solution for this use case is better
> than direct repository operation.

A lot of Subversion users are very hung up on doing all related tasks
in one revision. You might want to combine the delete with some other
changes and do it in a single transaction.

All that said, I did not mean to use this example as the rationale for
my objection. My objections is merely that I think your solution is
worse than the problem it is trying to solve. I do not really think
there is a problem in this case.

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