Re: Unexpected svn add --depth behavior

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Marc Strapetz
<marc.strapetz_at_syntevo.com> wrote:
> With SVN 1.6.1, when adding an unversioned directory (containing some
> unversioned files) with --depth=empty, this depth will also be set to
> .svn/entries file. Hence, resulting working copy is sparse and will
> remain sparse also after adding contained unversioned files and
> committing all added entries.
>
> If the user isn't aware of this fact, resulting update behavior (new
> entries are not fetched), merge behavior, etc. can be quite strange. I
> would suggest to set depth "infinity" to added entries regardless of
> used --depth parameter (or am I missing something important here?)

I have also found this. I thought there was a thread about it, but I
cannot find it. Might have been a private discussion. I agree it is
a bug.

This bites us in Subclipse because we do all adds as svn add -N so
that only the specific items you select in GUI are added.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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