Ray Johnson wrote:
>
> We have a case where a directory that we know is in the repository
> doesn't come over when doing an "svn update" not matter what we try.
> We have been able to reproduce how subversion gets into this state.
> Here is what we did:
>
> Starting in an existing working directory:
>
> c:> rmdir Reports ;# Where Reports is a directory under
> version control and did exist in the working directory
>
> c:> svn update -N ;# Do a non-recursive update.
> D Reports
> Updated to revision 618.
>
> This does not recreate the Reports directory. Why not?
Because you told it not to recurse, which means don't go into
subdirectories. I guess it's a matter of semantics whether it should
create the empty "Reports" directory -- I'd argue it shouldn't -- but
restoring any of the files in Reports would definitely be wrong.
Received on Fri Jun 4 22:50:27 2004