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Re: Bug in folder delete (also - Nightly missing)

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 19:07:05 +0200

Harun Vos wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've found an unexpected behaviour when tsvn-deleting a folder
> containing unversioned or modified files, using 1.6.2 32bit.
>
> I have a test repo containing:
> /root1.txt
> /root2.txt
> /subdir
> /subdir/sub.txt
>
> 1. In subdir in the working copy, I create an unversioned file
> 2. I right-click on subdir, then TortoiseSVN -> Delete. A prompt asks
> "The folder <path>\subdir contains unversioned and/or modified file(s).
> Do you want to remove it anyway?" with Yes, No and Yes to all buttons.
> 3. I choose "Yes" (or "Yes to all").
> The entire subdir is deleted - not just emptied and marked as 'to be
> deleted on commit'. This is odd - "svn delete --force subdir" does not
> do this.

But that's not a real problem.

> At this point, a commit would successfully delete subdir from the repo,
> regardless.
> To trigger the real problem:
> 4. I modify the files root1.txt and root2.txt.
> 5. I commit, and in the commit dialog I deselect root1.txt, root2.txt or
> both.
> The commit fails with "Error: Entry for '<path>\subdir' has no URL".
> If both root1.txt and root2.txt had been selected for committing, then
> the commit would have succeeded.

This is the problem: it's not possible to commit a folder deletion
non-recursively. And since you excluded at least one item from being
committed, TSVN is forced to do a non-recursive commit.

> I have not tested this with the latest nightly (today's - rev 16458 - is
> missing) so sorry if this has already been fixed.

Sorry, I broke the build yesterday.

I'll have a look at this, maybe I can improve the situation a little bit.

Stefan

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