Re: Behavior of svn remove on sparse directory.

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:13 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> That said, I mostly agree that disallowing 'svn rm' might be a step too far
> in the conservative direction (though I'm not fully convinced of it). So
> would there be any value to having the Book and 'svn rm's' usage message
> pointing out that you should be careful when using it on a directory that is
> sparsely populated? Or how about a status indication that denotes sparsely
> populated subtrees (depth!=infinity)?

I think that would be a good idea, since currently there's no nice
(recursive) way to find out "what stuff in my working copy isn't
depth=infinity", but if it's in "svn status", it should require some
extra --show-shallow flag to display. Otherwise we're replicating the
ugliness of externals where a perfectly normal part of your long-term
wc setup shows up in every single 'svn status' forever.

--dave

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