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Re: lose unversioned data with revert

From: Neels J Hofmeyr <neels_at_elego.de>
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 02:41:31 +0100

On 02/29/2012 04:23 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 04:07:10PM +0100, Neels J Hofmeyr wrote:
>> My impression was that svn tries to leave unversioned data around until the
>> user takes care of it (as with 'svn delete dir'). That's what I thought
>> obstructed states are for.
>
> Revert is a bit of a fine line. It is a command that is supposed to
> throw away local changes. So by definition is it disruptive and
> dangerous.
>
> However, I agree with the sentiment that revert should not delete
> unversioned data from disk.

What stsp said

~Neels

Received on 2012-03-01 02:42:13 CET

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