Re: Unversioned vs Ignored in Check for Modifications

On 10/9/07, Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 09/10/2007, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Josha Foust wrote:
> > > In the Check for Modifications screen, I noticed a problem with the
> > > definition of Unversioned vs Ignored. When both of those check boxes
> > > are checked, files in subdirectories of Ignored directories show up as
> > > Unversioned.
> > >
> > > Example:
> > > A/
> > > 1/
> > > 2/
> > > ab.txt
> > > cd.txt
> > >
> > > If svn:ignore of "A" is "2" then "2" will show up as ignored, but
> > > "ab.txt" and "cd.txt" will show up non-versioned. This seems incorrect
> > > to me. Is this by design or accident?
> >
> > This is by design. the svn:ignore property can only ignore items
> > directly below it. "ab.txt" and "cd.txt" are in an ignored subfolder,
> > they're not ignored anymore by the svn:ignore property - so they're
> > really unversioned.
>
> That may be true, but it doesn't make a lot of sense from the user's
> point of view, and it is not consistent with the CLI.
>
> svn status -v --no-ignore
>
> shows the ignored folder but not its children.

I see another inconsistency here: you ! :)
As far as I remember, it was you who wanted teh CfM dialog to show the
files within unversioned folders too - that why there's an option to
activate that (recurse into unversioned folders).

Stefan

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