On 12/23/05, Tobias Schäfer <tobiasschaefer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> a common user problem when committing metadata changes to a directory seems to
> be that the directory is out of date and the commit therefore fails. The
> solution is to update the directory. So far everything seems to be ok.
>
> But consider the following scenarios:
> Scenario 1:
> The directory "d" was last updated to revision 5. Changes of revision 6 to 10
> have taken place outside of directory "d". The repository is currently in
> revision 10.
> The commit of a metadata change of directory "d" is successfull without an
> explicit update to revision 10. Perfect!
>
> Scenario 2:
> The directory "d" was last updated to revision 5. The directory "d" contains a
> file "f" last commited as revision 7. Changes of revision 6, 8, 9 and 10 have
> taken place outside of directory "d". The repository is currently in revision
> 10.
> The commit of a metadata change of directory "d" fails with the error "out of
> date".
> Why? The update of the directory "d" would not change any file or metadata but
> merely update the revision number to 10, since all changes between revision 5
> and 10 have taken place outside of directory "d" or like revision 7 are
> already applied within the directory "d".
>
> My Idea: Why does subversion not silently update to HEAD prior to committing a
> directory if (and only if) an update would not change any file or metadata
> within the directory?
>
> The documentation (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch02s03.html) says:
> "Second, you cannot commit a metadata change to a directory unless it's fully
> up-to-date. You'll learn about attaching "properties" to items in Chapter 6.
> A directory's working revision defines a specific set of entries and
> properties, and thus committing a property change to an out-of-date directory
> may destroy properties you've not yet seen."
>
> The question is how to interpret "unless it's fully up-to-date". Does it mean
> a) The directory is update with revision HEAD or changes between the current
> revision and HEAD have taken place outside of the directory.
> or
> b) An update to revision HEAD would not change any file or metadata within the
> directory.
>
> Currently a) seems to be implemented, but I would prefer b). It would prevent
> a manual update of the directory which in my opinion is not needed.
>
> I am using subversion 1.2.3.
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1539
HTH,
Erik.
Received on Sun Dec 25 00:51:56 2005