It's not an error, per say. More a limitation of eclipse.
You'll note it only happens if you copy the files within the resource
navigator. If you do it in the repository view, you can achieve a SVN
Copy, which is the kind you want. If you really dragged it, it should
have performed a SVN move, BTW, and you wouldn't see this behavior. It's
only the in-navigator copy that is wonked.
You are correct in that it is the .svn folders being copied. One
solution is to copy them, and then using the filesystem delete the .svn
metadata folders in the freshly copied folders (they are hidden by
default in eclipse).
So basically whenever you want to copy something, do it in the
repository view, so you can get all the files history and such (if you
delete the .svn folder it will no longer be linked with the original
copy's history)
Hope this clarifies things. Try another search of the archives of this
list for like "copy .svn" or something similar, there is more info out
there.
:Denny
Sejal Patel wrote:
> Hey guys. I'm totally new to this and am not even on this mailing
> list. I've been using subversion for a while and subclipse plugin for
> eclipse as well. I've never noticed this issue before but I've never
> tried this exact thing before either. I went to file the bug report
> and the page said I should search for existing entry (couldn't find
> one) and if not found email here to find out the appropriate way to
> file the report and with whom to file it with.
>
> This issue is a subclipse bug. I'll explain the scenario in which the
> problem occurs. Then I'll give my untested hypothesis on why it
> happens 100% of the time.
>
> Checkout project A from http://myserver/svn/repo/myprojectA/trunk/cma
> Checkout project B from http://myserver/svn/repo/newprojectB/trunk/cma
>
> In project A
> click on a package with 3 or more directory structures deep and drag
> it into the project B source folder.
>
> Example of a project that deep would be com.department.section.project
> In that package structure there should be at least 1 file (MyReport.java).
>
> All that stuff should already be checked in and commit in project A
> and have a history.
>
>
> When you drag that package to project B it copies everything over and
> marks them for addition in the new project. That is correct. However,
> it always errors out without any explaination (not even in the console
> view) for why. Other things in that project will checkin fine but not
> anything related to the new package just dragged over and added.
>
> Updates will also work fine even on the dragged over package. Just
> will not let you commit.
>
> That is the problem.
>
>
> My hypothesis is that this is because it copies over the .svn folders
> in the packages. I believe this is the case because even from the
> command line I could not commit the stuff. However when I made each
> and every one of those folders by hand and copies all the files over
> to it and did a commit on that same stuff (basically only the .svn did
> not exist) it worked perfectly (even from inside of eclipse).
>
> This just happened a few minutes ago and I just updated (clean install
> of eclipse 3.1.1 with new workspace and fresh install of the subclipse
> plugin and then fresh checkout of the projects were all done)
> yesterday. So I know it isn't that I'm out of date. I'm also on a
> linux (ubuntu breezy) platform so I can't say if the same thing
> happens in windows (haven't really used that in nearly 5 years) but
> I'm fairly certain it is just an problem because it moves the .svn
> folders with it.
>
>
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> self-interest of the largest portion of the population.
Received on Sun Nov 20 14:17:43 2005