[RFC] svn commit --parents option needed

Hi Developers,

I propose the addition of an equivalent to the --parents option to "svn
commit", to check in the directory structure as well as any files
specified.

I understand that with svn add, the --parents option is available. However,
the use case I have in mind is one that I come across quite often,
involving changelists and SVN moves.

If I add files to changelist, I expect to be able to commit any changes to
them quickly and easily - that's the point, right? But if I perform an SVN
move on these items, to a directory which is not yet committed, because I
cannot yet add directories to the changelist, when I go to commit the
files, I get the error

svn: E200009: '/some/new/directory/here' is not known to exist in the
repository and is not part of the commit, yet its child
'/some/new/directory/here/file_on_changelist.txt' is part of the commit

If I then try and commit those files, as sort of a "pre-commit" commit,
then i get the error

Cannot commit '/some/directory/here' because it was moved from
'/other/directory/here/' which is not part of the commit; both sides of the
move must be committed together

The workaround for this seems to involve a mess of committing these
directories together, with the option --depth=empty, and then committing
with the changelist. Alternatively, I could just skip the --depth=empty,
and let the commit handle the fiels as well - but then, what was the point
in making a changelist? I still end up formulating some long command!

I was asking about this in the #svn IRC - here is the chat log:
http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/svn?date=2017-11-14#l21

Is what I am suggesting clear? I'd appreciate your thoughts.

Thanks,

Sam (sixquidsquid)
Received on 2017-11-14 17:12:11 CET