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Re: rename is not atomic (& is confusing)

From: Milen A. Radev <milen_at_radev.net>
Date: 2007-03-29 18:40:10 CEST

On 29/03/07, Jason Sachs <jsachs@dekaresearch.com> wrote:
> (TSVN 1.4.3 build 8645 on my Windows 2000 PC.)
>
> Rename seems to not be atomic. If I do TortoiseSVN->Rename, what it seems to do is to locally rename a file, and just update the status. This shows the renamed file as "added". If I commit the "added" file, the repository then has 2 files (original plus the newly renamed file); there is no way to commit the file as deleted unless I commit the directory.

Plese look here -
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.ref.svn.c.move.html and
here - http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=898 .

>
> If I decide, "whoops, I didn't want to rename after all", and I update the directory from the repository, it doesn't restore the renamed file. If I do "revert" instead, it leaves the newly renamed file as blank (no icon overlay), then I have to manually rename the file back and revert it again.

That's because you could have made some modifications in the file
after the rename - this way they would not be lost.

>
> This is very confusing. I would suggest some possibilities:
> (1) In the rename dialog box, add a "Commit now" checkbox (and maybe a warning indicator if the contents have changed in the repository as well)
> (2) as an alternative to the above, when you rename a file locally, add an option to do the corresponding rename (copy+delete) in the repository as well. (without committing any changes to the file itself)
> (3) No matter what, please document how we are supposed to rename files in TSVN! I have no idea what the proper sequence of actions is that I should be taking.

You make your change and then commit it. This way you could make a
bunch of changes and then commit them all at once atomically.

-- 
Milen A. Radev
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