Re: [TSVN] commit of missing files automatically selects removal

Stefan Küng wrote:
>>>3. If a file is missing, you don't need it anymore [...]
>>
>>You clearly presume a lot about specific working processes that IMHO
>>doesn't apply to _all_ processes.
>
> Can you give me *one* (but real, existing) example where a program
> will delete files which are still required? If a file is really
> required, then your build/tests will fail if the file is missing. But
> if it's not required anymore, it can be removed.

>>>The real question you should ask yourself: why do you have a
>>>*generated* file under version control???

Ahem. We do exactly that in TSVN - the pot files are versioned so that
translators don't have to generate them.

So an example might be:

Break the build somehow, so that the pot file gets deleted.
Fix the problem but forget to regenerate the pot.
Commit.

In general I agree that generated files should not be included in the
repository, but he does have a point. If you rename a file in explorer
instead of SVN, the old name is deleted automatically and the new name
is not added automatically.

For consistency I am inclined to think that missing files should not be
checked by default. Does the CLI automatically delete missing files as well?

Simon

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