Re: auto detect directory existience

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>
> On Feb 17, 2005, at 7:02 AM, allan@muly.dk wrote:
>
>>
>> i have tried to call the "svn ls" and look in the output for
>> "non-existent" but
>> currently that a bad option.
>>
>
> Why is that a bad option?
>
> You want to check for the existence of a path in the repository. 'svn
> ls' is the command used to browse a repository. It seems like an exact
> functional match.
>
>

well, its not that bad (currently its my perl on win32 thats bad ;) )

hmm, come to think about it (and drifting to a new topic), i think i saw
a patch somewhere that one could pass -p or -P ? (for create/dont create
parent dir) switch for the svn copy command - wss that a dream ?

the only reason i need to check for the existence of a dir is that i
need to be sure that the parentdir is not created insoide itself so to
speak. so if i could run:

$ svn copy -p baseURL/parentdir/ baseTagURL/parentdir/

this should ensure that i *don't* end up with

   baseTagURL/parentdir/parentdir/

./allan

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Received on Thu Feb 17 20:44:28 2005