Re: Proposal: svn:temporary property

Folker Schamel wrote:
> User A is working on a module fancy_module.
> Some day, user A decides to remove fancy_module/subdir.

This is the cause of the problem, not anything User B has any control over.
User A has broken the compilation for User B's module.

>
> User B works on the same project but on different modules.
> User B is even not aware of the existance of fancy_module/subdir.
> But user B indirectly compiles fancy_module/subdir by executing
> a project make, creating temporary files in fancy_module/subdir.
> But now when user B does his regulary update,
> he will suddenly get an error about modified files in
> fancy_module/subdir, a directory, he has never heared about.

If User B had done an update before compiling, the fancy_module/subdir would
have been removed from the WC and the compilation would fail for those reasons.
  Still not subversion's fault; the module dependencies need to be fixed so that
User A cannot bork User B's modules.

I don't see how a new property would help this in the slightest. It may be that
fancy_module/subdir never should have been in the repository in the first place,
in which case my original comment stands.

John

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