[Subclipse-users] Re: How Subversion drove me to shoot myself in the foot.

>>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 7:42 am, in message
<44463041.9060201@stats.uwo.ca>,
Duncan Murdoch <murdoch@stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt's suggestion to change the complaint sounds like the
best
> solution to me:
>
>> "You cannot 'svn delete foo' because foo is not yet in the
>> repository. If you want to revert the scheduled addition of foo, use
 
>> 'svn revert foo'."

Stopping the delete operation along with the error message gets my
vote.

I initially liked the proposed 'svn subtract' command but realized that
the add operation puts you in the context of a transaction in SVN.
You've asked SVN to manage the files, you now need to rollback the
transaction. The add is part of the trans, and the way to rollback a
transaction is to revert. You're not reversing the add, you're
reversing the trans. That's why 'add' shouldn't get it's own 'subtract'
command.

Andy

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Received on Wed Apr 19 16:29:24 2006