Re: Problem with changelists and new directories

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com> wrote:

> "John Abd-El-Malek" <john.abdelmalek_at_gmail.com> writes:
> > Hello, my team of about several dozen developers has been using Rietveld
> for
> > code reviews. We've created wrapper scripts that use svn changelists to
> group
> > files in one code review together. However we're running into an issue
> when
> > adding files in a new directory. The problem is that the new directory
> can't
> > be added to the changelist. When someone tries to commit the changelist,
> it
> > fails because the new directory isn't committed.
>
> I thought you couldn't add directories to changelists at all? Aren't
> they only for files?

Right, you can't add the directory. The new file is in the changelist
though.

>
>
> It would help if you attached a reproduction script.

mkdir john
(create a file called README in john)
svn add john
svn cl addjohn john\README
svn commit --cl addjohn --message=''

svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: '/chrome/branches/depot_tools_release_branch/john' path not found

>
>
> Thanks,
> -Karl
>
Received on 2008-07-21 22:53:39 CEST