On Wednesday 10 December 2003 15:23, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:32:47 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 21:03:44 -0500, John Szakmeister wrote:
> >> The problem is that usr/ was scheduled for addition, and then somehow
> >> the .svn/ directories got nuked underneath it. This left him in an
> >> unrecoverable state because he couldn't rename usr/ on his server.
> >>
> >> I think we need to look at forcing this to revert even if the directory
> >> is unversioned. I can see this happening again, especially in
> >> situations like Fraser's.
> >
> > I agree. I have this problem too.
>
> [...]
>
> Well, this workaround works for my problem (tried to add directory
> without write permission in WC) :
>
> 1) check out the existing repository to a new WC.
> 2) create (mkdir) the directory and 'svn add ; svn commit' the
> directory
> 3) 'cp -a' the .svn directory from the temp WC to the "real" WC
> 4) operation on the real WC as usual (ie adding files in the
> directory, and so forth)
My only concern here would be the lack of disk space to do such a thing.
-John
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Received on Thu Dec 11 01:19:26 2003