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Re: Proposal: svn:temporary property

From: Folker Schamel <schamel23_at_spinor.com>
Date: 2003-12-18 16:59:49 CET

>>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.

I think the philosophy of subversion should be that
if user A and user B work on disjunct project parts,
they should not interfer with each other,
i.e. user B is not bothered by changes of user A or vice versa.
svn:temporary would archive this.

Cheers,
Folker

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