> On Jul 31, 2006, at 15:42, Kevin Musker wrote:
>
> > I experienced a problem with the svn command line client and am
pretty
> > sure it's a bug.
> >
> > If I svn cp a file from the repository, and subsequently delete it,
I
> > get an error if I try to copy it in again -
> >
> >> svn cp $SVNROOT/cheese.cc .
> >> svn rm --force cheese.cc
> >> svn cp $SVNROOT/cheese.cc .
> > svn: 'cheese.cc' is not under version control
>
> User error. Don't do that.
>
> If you copied the file
>
> svn cp $SVNROOT/cheese.cc .
>
> and then decided, before committing, that you didn't mean to copy it
> after all, don't
>
> svn rm --force cheese.cc
>
> Instead, revert the copy:
>
> svn revert cheese.cc
OK, granted, I should have used revert instead.
But no amount of user error (other than modifying files in the .svn
directory) should result in
a working copy being in an inconsistent state. If --force should only
really be used in exceptional
circumstances, this should be documented in the rm section, not just in
the general svn section
From the svnbook:
"The command will not remove any unversioned or modified items; use the
--force switch to override this behavior."
This doesn't say anything about not using --force for copied files. The
command line app
even suggests the use of --force:
> svn rm cheese.cc
svn: Use --force to override this restriction
svn: 'cheese.cc' has local modifications
To people experienced in using svn, it's obvious that revert should be
used. But to someone
used to using a shell in unix, rm is the complement of cp.
Maybe it's just a documentation/error message issue, but surely the
cause of an inconsistent
state is a bug?
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