Hi Stefan,
Is their a command to check whether a particular path/folder say
/yyy/zzz/src already exists or not?
Actually to decide whether to pass /makeparents or not, I need to be
able to detect whether the path already exists.
Thanks and Regards
Siddharth Goel
Mob No - 9953166161
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07.01.2017 18:43, siddharth Goel wrote:
>> I am using Version 1.9.5 Build 27038. On executing the below command
>> twice to copy SRC folder from trunk to my local Dev folder :-
>>
>> *TortoiseProc.exe /command:copy /path:https://example.com/svn/trunk/SRC
>> /makeparents /url:https://example.com/svn/DEV/SID/SRC*
>>
>> In first run it's creating the required intermediate folders and coping
>> the contents of SRC fine as expected.
>>
>> But in second run it must give me a error that the folder already exists
>> instead it created another folder named SRC in my SRC folder and copying
>> the contents again thus creating duplicates.
>>
>> If I run command third time, it gives error 'folder already exists'
>> which it should have given in the second run itself.
>>
>> I have made a Tool to automate some of the TSVN work and these
>> duplicates are creating unnecessary confusion. Can I do something to
>> avoid it? Is this a Setting issue or a bug?
>
> this is how it's supposed to work.
> if you create a copy from /xxx/src to /yyy/zzz/src with /makeparents
> active and either /yyy/ or /yyy/zzz/ does not exist, then svn knows that
> the target is /yyy/zzz/src.
> But if both subfolders /yyy/zzz/src already exist, what should the copy
> do? It copies the /xxx/src folder to the target folder /yyy/zzz/src.
> How would it know that your 'xxx/src' folder is the same (for you) as
> 'yyy/zzz/src'? Just because the name 'src' is identical?
>
> You must only specify /makeparents if the intermediate folders don't
> exist yet.
>
> Stefan
>
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