"Rui, Guo" <timmyguo_at_mail.ustc.edu.cn> writes:
>> > Hmmm. I'm not sure. If someone copies a tree T that contains excluded
>> > subdir S, then when whey commit, will the new tree T_NEW (in the
>> > repository) also contain S_NEW? Once we answer this question, I think
>> > it will be clear how other things should behave.
>>
>> Some day I did an experiment on this. The version I used just copied the
>> exclude flag to the new tree. And after commit, the server side will have a
>> full source tree in the target position. I think this behavior is just fine.
>> Maybe it is a good idea to maintain this behavior and make the code more
>> robust?
>
> After a second check on this, I find that this function is only used to copy
> items added without history (In other words, those not yet in the repos). So,
> this code path is irrelevant to the exclude flag.
Oh, heh, then ignore my mail that said: "This question is similar to the
longer discussion we had about doing 'svn cp non-depth-infinity-tree
new-tree', and I think the decision here is the same as our decision
there." :-).
-K
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Received on 2008-07-21 22:49:49 CEST