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Proposal: svn:temporary property

From: Folker Schamel <schamel23_at_spinor.com>
Date: 2003-12-18 13:04:16 CET

Hello!

We've encountered the following problem:
Sometimes directories contain temporary files,
e.g from compiling.
If the dirctory is deleted on the svn server,
then the users get a error message like
"directory contains modified files".

This error is correct, but confusing,
because the user didn't change anything explicitely
in this directory.
Maybe the user even doesn't know anything about this directory,
and so he hesitates to manipulate it to solve the problem.
(Of course, an expert user knows that you simply
have to manually delete the directory, but other users
may be confused.)

Since the user didn't cause the problem,
it would be good if also subversion does
not generate an error.

Proposal:
A svn:temporary property, which works in the same way
as svn:ignore property, but silently deletes these files
if the directory is deleted.

This is not an serious problem;
on the other hand it may be quite easy to implement?

Cheers,
Folker

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