[svn.haxx.se] · SVN Dev · SVN Users · SVN Org · TSVN Dev · TSVN Users · Subclipse Dev · Subclipse Users · this month's index

Re: Single-DB: should "status -u" recurse into missing dir? (merge_tests 16 failure)

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:41:45 -0400

Recurse. Show all the info.

On Aug 27, 2010 11:33 AM, "Julian Foad" <julian.foad_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> In single-DB world, the WC generated in merge_tests.py 16, a directory
> 'A/B/F/Q' has been deleted from disk without informing Subversion, so
> its status is 'missing'.
>
> Look at the difference between these two "svn status" runs on it:
>
> $ svn st A/B/F -vu
> ! 2 2 jrandom A/B/F/Q
> ! 2 2 jrandom A/B/F/foo
> 1 1 jrandom A/B/F
> Status against revision: 3
>
> $ svn st A/B/F -v
> 1 1 jrandom A/B/F
> ! 2 2 jrandom A/B/F/Q
> ! 3 3 jrandom A/B/F/Q/R
> ! 3 3 jrandom A/B/F/Q/R/bar
> ! 3 3 jrandom A/B/F/Q/baz
> ! 2 2 jrandom A/B/F/foo
>
> In the old multi-DB WC world, status was not able to recurse into a
> missing directory because the metadata's unavailable, so it didn't,
> neither in local mode nor in '-u' mode. (In '-u' mode of course it
> could find out what children of 'Q' are in the repo, but it didn't.)
>
> Now, in single-DB, it can report the whole WC status. But should it?
>
> I don't know whether to make it stop there (for back compat?) or
> recurse. Either way, the current inconsistency is, I think, wrong.
>
> Any insight?
>
> - Julian
>
>
Received on 2010-08-27 17:42:22 CEST

This is an archived mail posted to the Subversion Dev mailing list.

This site is subject to the Apache Privacy Policy and the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy.