Re: Problems with update after moving several directories

On Monday 06 December 2004 18:14, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Patrick Heinemann <heinemann@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
> > I have recently changed the directory layout of our software, e.g.
> > $> cd trunk/
> > $> svn move IPC/ inter_process_com
> > D + IPC
> > A + inter_process_com
> > $> svn commit
> > commited revision 1005
> > and so on...
> >
> > Now I tried to update a users working copy which he had changed meanwhile
> > at some files. The result was:
> > $> cd trunk/
> > $> svn update
> > svn: Cannot replace a directory from within
> >
> > What does that mean? The moved directories all are subdirectories of the
> > trunk/ directory. This even happens with
> > $> cd ..
> > $> svn update trunk/
> > svn: Cannot replace a directory from within
> >
> > Is there a problem with updating working directories when main
> > directories where moved or is it just because the working directory was
> > changed in the meantime?
>
> Without knowing that user's local changes, it's impossible to say why
> this is happening. What were his local changes before the update?

Unfortunately the user followed the brute force way meanwhile, i.e. checkout
the new version and copying the changed files to the new working set as a
change...
Well, the changes included only small changes in four or five files. No
directory moves or file copies whatsoever, if that's what you mean!?

> > This should not be the behaviour of a versioning system, right?
>
> Subversion's bug tracker "should" be empty, too :-).

Sorry about that, I didn't mean it that way! :-)

> -Karl

Patrick

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