Hi,
I originally posted this on the Tortoise SVN developer mailing list,
because I wasn't sure where to post it. However, I was informed that
the topic would be better suited for the subversion mailing list. Note
that I don't have a lot of experience with working with subversion
directly, so I can only explain the problem as I found it through
TortoiseSVN. I apologize for the inconvenience, but I hope that you'll
get the basic description of the problem I'm facing. The original post
I made to TortoiseSVN has been pasted below:
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This may be a Subversion issue, but I'm not sure. I'll ask here and
then if need be I'll forward this on to the subversion mailing list.
When I'm working out of a feature branch, sometimes I will want to do
an SVN Switch back to trunk, but instead of going to the HEAD of trunk
I'll go to some extremely early version. In my specific test case,
doing so results in a folder like C:\IT\work\jewett\vfx\mycomponent
(Assuming C:\IT\work\jewett is my working copy root) being deleted,
but the update dialog fails with:
Switch C:\IT\work\jewett to
http://teamserver:1337/svn/vfxrepo/vfx/trunk, Revision 260
C:\IT\work\jewett\tools
Won't delete locally modified directory 'C:\IT\work\jewett\vfx'
Left locally modified or unversioned files
What I believe is happening here is that the entire switch process is
failing because I have unversioned (but svn:ignore'd) files and
directories in parent directories that are versioned, but are
attempting to be removed from the working copy by TSVN. What I would
expect to happen here is that the switch process does *not* fail here,
but instead it silently unversions the respective directories that
contain unversioned items, but does not delete them (Like it does for
single files), only the .svn folders would be removed. Why is this
treated as an exceptional error? I don't like that the switch process
fails because of this. Now my working copy is so messed up that I
cannot recover it without doing a completely new checkout, or deleting
some very large directories that cause some expensive bandwidth to get
back. (such as jewett/vfx directory).
I'm using TortoiseSVN 1.5.2.
Note also that when I do a "Check for Modifications" after the switch
fails, I see one folder inside of C:\IT\work\jewett\vfx that is
colored red and marked as "Obstructed". This folder has no icon
overlay and no .svn folder inside of it. For example,
jewett/vfx/configuration, a directory, would only contain the files
inside of it that were previously unversioned, but all of the
versioned contents are removed.
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Received on 2008-08-27 21:13:38 CEST