Re: [RFC] Issue 2269 - svn st|up Do Not Warn When Ran Against a Nonexistent Path

Hi,

On 27/08/2008 03:35, Jeremy Whitlock wrote:
> The reason I didn't submit it for review was that for some reason, I
> was worried about the following two scenarios:
>
> 1) svn st -u NONEXISTENT_PATH (Where the path doesn't exist in the WC
> but does exist in the repository.)
> 2) svn up NONEXISTENT_PATH (Where the path doesn't exist in the WC but
> does exist in the repository.)
>
> The more I think about this now, I think both of these should be
> handled like any other non-existent path, just like svn rm which
> outputs an error:
>
> svn: 'NONEXISTENT_PATH' does not exist

For (2), consider the following case however:

# svn co -N $REPOS/trunk/foo

where foo contains a few files and some directories.
If you subsequently want to pull down a subdirectory, bar, the following
currently works:

# svn up bar

In this case bar exists in the repository but not in the WC.
Maybe this use case is not so important any more, but I used this often
with a 1.4 client to simulate a simple sparse WC.

Regards,

David.

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