> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Küng [mailto:tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 2:33 AM
> To: users_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: feature request: commit warning for switched subtrees
>
> On 13.10.2009 18:06, Todd C. Gleason wrote:
> > I've seen users occasionally commit changes from multiple trees due to
> > the accidental presence of switched subtrees, and would like it if
> > TortoiseSVN gave a warning when you did this.
> >
> > The way I think this most commonly happens is that the user has two
> > working copies, for instance:
> >
> > C:\dev\A -> /branches/A
> >
> > C:\dev\trunk -> /trunk
> >
> > The user makes changes in A\1 and copies the whole "1" folder over under
> > C:\dev\trunk, overwriting C:\dev\trunk\1 .
> >
> > Then maybe the user makes other changes in C:\dev\trunk\2, or copies
> > individual files from C:\dev\A\2 into C:\dev\trunk\2 .
> >
> > Yes, the user doesn't necessarily understand that each individual .svn
> > folder knows where it goes, and is not a slave to the parent directory
> > except during switch operations. Or maybe the user knows it but isn't
> > paying that close attention, or forgot that their various WC folders
> > were not part of the same tree.
> >
> > In any case, at this point C:\dev\trunk\1 is mapped to /branches/A/1,
> > while C:\dev\trunk\2 is mapped to /trunk/2 .
> >
> > User commits, and changes end up in /branches/A as well as /trunk .
>
> I'm not sure how you got here:
> if you copy a whole folder (including the .svn folder) into a working
> copy, you'll end up with a 'nested' layout (not a switched folder!). And
> the commit dialog doesn't show items in nested folders, so committing
> them isn't possible (unless you select them manually first and then show
> the commit dialog).
The user didn't copy a whole working copy under a working copy; he copied part of one working copy over another. So, C:\dev\A\1 was copied over top of C:\dev\trunk\1 so that now C:\dev\trunk\1 doesn't point at /trunk/1, but at /branches/A/1. I believe this does work out to a switched subtree--C:\dev\trunk\1 is a subtree of C:\dev\trunk and it doesn't point at the original URL, but to the equivalent from the A branch.
Please let me know if that's still not clear.
--Todd
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