Re: Forcing Update Before Commit

Hi Simon,

Thanks for your response. You are absolutely correct. We have 2 possible
scenarios that we are looking at. One is where someone does an Update with
SVN, but then copies in a change from another platform, ie UNIX to
Windows. Since the Update Synch'd the Windows Working Copy with SVN, it
would not pick up the out-of-date condition ? The other involves a
Branch-Merge operation which does take careful Human analysis and
verification prior to a commit. In either case, an Update would have
caught the problem but I guess in retrospect, these are conditions outside
of the "NORMAL" operations and SNV can not catch every possibility.

Best Regards,

Joe

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Simon Large <simon@skirridsystems.co.uk>
11/27/2006 03:44 PM
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joseph.h.dayney@rrd.com wrote:
>
> Our Development Group was wondering if there is a way to configure
> TortoiseSVN (SubVersion) to "FORCE" a Working Copy Update, before a
> Commit takes place ... to prevent inadvertantly wiping out previously
> committed changes because an UPDATE did not occur prior to the COMMIT.
> If it is possible, we would like THIS to be the DEFAULT configuration.

How did you manage to wipe out previously committed changes? If the
working copy is out of date, the commit will fail.

And if the update pulls down changes which get merged into your WC,
perhaps you should be checking that there are no conflicts and making
sure the build still works before going ahead and committing.

Simon

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