Re: Proposal: svn:temporary property

Folker Schamel wrote:

>> Folker Schamel wrote:
>>
>>> We've encountered the following problem:
>>> Sometimes directories contain temporary files,
>>> e.g from compiling.
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't understand; temporary files, i.e. from compiling, do not
>> belong in the repository in the first place. If they are never
>> checked in, svn will not notice if they change or are deleted.
>
>
> User A is working on a module fancy_module.
> Some day, user A decides to remove fancy_module/subdir.
>
> 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.

Right. And "svn status" will tell him that that directory is no longer
under version control. Whereupon he will delete it, update again, and
the problem will go away.

Unless, of course, he has local changes to version-controlled files in
that directory, in which case there is a conflict.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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