Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Aug 15, 2005, at 6:41 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> > I see, so I should have specified not the folder that was deleted
> > but rather a parent thereof. I still wonder, though that's rather
> > the developer in me, whether this is the right behaviour.
>
> Remember that the syntax of 'svn merge' is 2 URLs and a working-copy-
> object: "compare these two URLs, and apply the difference to this
> working-copy-object right here". But that syntax will not work if
> the working-copy-object doesn't exist. You cannot apply a difference
> to a non-existent target! That's why you need to do the merge on the
> parent directory of the missing thing: compare two snapshots of the
> parent dir, and apply the diff to the parent dir.
Now in that light, it makes sense. Thanks Ben!
Uli
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Received on Mon Aug 15 14:18:40 2005