An 'update' has restored the directory as expected. It seems that I
can't now reproduce what I was experiencing earlier with the revert
attempt, so there was obviously another factor involved that I didn't
spot. If I can reproduce it again I'll post to the list again with
more details.
John.
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> John Blackbourn wrote:
>> I started the revert from the root of the local copy. The error from the log is:
>>
>> Command : Revert
>> Failed revert : D:\Documents\Sites\wp\2.6\wp-content\plugins
>> Finished! :
>>
>> There is a directory inside this folder which is an external. This
>> folder was deleted from the local copy and the revert seems unable to
>> restore it, and this is why the revert is failing.
>>
>> If anyone would like to test it out, svn co
>> http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6.3/ . The folder in
>> question is wp-content\plugins\akismet .
>
> Here's what I did:
> * checked out http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/2.6.3/ to folder
> 'wordpress'
> * deleted the folder 'wordpress\wp-content\plugins\akismet'
> * right-clicked on 'wordpress', select "revert"
> * the revert dialog shows up, but it doesn't show anything ("file list
> is empty") because a missing folder can not be reverted (to restore such
> a folder, you have to use 'update').
>
> So what exactly did you do?
>
> If I can't reproduce this, I won't be able to fix this.
>
> Stefan
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