RE: Partially recursive revert when node kind changes

> Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com> writes:
>
> >> Suppose I have a directory tree:
> >>
> >> foo/
> >> bar/
> >> zig
> >>
> >> and I delete the tree foo/bar and replace it by a file foo/bar.
> >> What
> >> should "svn revert --depth=files foo" do? Should it revert
> >> foo/bar?
> >> How much of foo/bar should it restore?
> >
> > You have done the following:
> >
> > 1. Delete a folder.
> >
> > 2. Add a file.
> >
> > If you revert "foo" it will remove the add, but it won't restore
> the folder... you would have to revert the delete which would
> restore the folder.
>
> Perhaps, but if I delete a file and replace it with another file,
> or
> delete a directory and replace it with a directory, then revert
> will
> undo both the add and the delete. Nodes that get reverted don't
> generally end up deleted, they end up pristine.

Ah... well I just tried it and can't do it. At least, in Windows... if I svn delete a folder and then try to create a file of the same name I get an error that it is a duplicate name. Because the folder is still in the file system marked as deleted in the working copy. Perhaps another file system type will still allow the file to be there?

BOb
Received on 2011-02-10 19:57:28 CET