Re: Proposal: svn:temporary property

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:51:29 +0100, Folker Schamel wrote:
>>>Instead of really deleting the directory,
>>>svn could rename it to something like .old.diretory,
>>>but not generating an error.
>>>Therefore, svn would never really delete data.
>>>This behaviour would be also fine for svn:ignore I think,
>>>without needing a new property.
>>
>> This approach creates the problem of some user (eg at a university)
>> filling up their disk quota. The user, who is mostly ignorant of svn,
>> then can not figure out why the system says they are out of space when
>> they have nothing left in their account. Another similar scenario is
>> a svn user temporarily forgetting about this feature as they try to
>> clean out old cruft hogging disk space.
>>
>> Just consider these issues while designing and implementing a
>> solution. (I guess renaming 'foo' to 'foo.svn-old' would be fine,
>> since it wouldn't be hidden in any way)
>
> Absolutely right. .old.direcory was stupid.
>
> Do you add your comment to the issue tracker?

I can add this, if the issue tracker contains discussion about
solutions. I'll go look.

-D

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