Re: Update targets that don't exist

"C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato_at_collab.net> writes:

> On 04/17/2013 07:34 AM, Bert Huijben wrote:
>>> With 1.6 and 1.8 I get:
>>>
>>> $ svn up wc/some-file-that-does-not-exist
>>> At revision 3
>>>
>>> With 1.7 I get:
>>>
>>> $ svn up wc/some-file-that-does-not-exist
>>> Updating 'wc/some-file-that-does-not-exist':
>>> At revision 3
>>>
>>> Is it valid for these update to be successful? Should we be returning
>>> an error if the update target doesn't exist in the intial working copy
>>> and doesn't get added by the update?
>>
>> I'm not sure if we should make it an error, but a warning (=notification)
>> would be friendly.
>
> +1. More than once I've mistakenly mis-issued an 'update' command and
> wished that Subversion had told me I'd made the mistake.

I'm not planning to implement it at present so I've raised:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4353

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