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Re: Bug with setting properties

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:03:45 +0200

Robert Dailey wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Robert Dailey wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently using the latest nightly build for TSVN.
> >
> > Please perform the following:
> >
> > 1. Perform a clean checkout of any project of any size from any SVN
> > 1.5.3 repository.
> > 2. Add a directory anywhere in your working copy and include 3 text
> > files in this new unversioned folder.
> > 3. Right click on the new directory and go to TortoiseSVN >> Add...
> > 4. Check all but 1 of the files.
> > 5. Now the new directory should be added and only 2 of the 3 text
> > files within it.
> > 6. On the unversioned text file, right click and go to the
> > TortoiseSVN context menu
> > 7. Notice how there's no options available to set the properties of
> > the file or ignore it.
> >
> > Would it be possible to add the ability to unversioned files under
> added
> > directories, or is this a limitation of subversion itself?
>
> Properties can only be set on versioned files. After all, they're
> Subversion properties.
>
>
> Well the ignore property is a property set on unversioned files. The
> directory has a .svn entry, so I would expect it to be able to add
> properties. Maybe my memory serves me wrong, but I remember being able
> to ignore things in an added directory in the past.

No, the ignore property is set on the parent folder of the unversioned
files, not on the files themselves.

Stefan

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Received on 2008-10-17 21:04:04 CEST

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