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AW: no error message if committing child of a deleted node

From: Markus Schaber <m.schaber_at_3s-software.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:42:29 +0200

Hi,

Von: Stefan Sperling [mailto:stsp_at_elego.de]
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 08:14:58AM +0200, Markus Schaber wrote:
> > Von: Stefan Sperling [mailto:stsp_at_elego.de]
> >
> > > When trying to commit a child of a deleted node, svn commit says
> > > nothing and just exists with status zero.
> > >
> > > This surprised me, because it complains loudly about committing
> > > children of copies (see http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-
> 07/0773.shtml).
> > > Shouldn't we raise some sort of error for the delete case, too?
> >
> > For me, this is not as surprising. Chidren of deleted nodes are also
> > deleted. And it perfectly makes sense for the server to get the
> > deletion of the child without getting the deletion of the parent.
> >
> > But getting the addition of a copied child without getting its
> > (not-yet existing) parent is a completely different thing.
>
> Yes to all that, but why shouldn't Subversion at least point out that
> "Cannot commit bar/foo because it is a child of the deleted directory
bar;
> you must commit bar instead"?
> The structure of the local change is clearly incompatible with what
the
> user attempts to commit in this case.

There is no conceptual reason to forbid the commit of a child of a
deleted directory. The right thing to do here is to send the deletion of
the child to the server.

Best regards

Markus Schaber

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