On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
Mike Pilato proposed doing what Marc suggests here:
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-04/0323.shtml
There were no objections, but not cries of enthusiastic support
either. Deafening silence really.
Paul
> 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
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