svn up - after broken update, file already exists error

Probably one of the more annoying errors that SVN gives. Basically, if
you start to update a large directory (or directory tree) and stop the
update somewhere in the middle, SVN now doesn't know what to do. Any
further attempts to "svn up" on the tree will fail with the "already
exists" error.

There has to be a more graceful way of handling this failure. Besides
requiring the user to blow away all of the data (a few GB in some cases)
that they've already downloaded and re-pull everything down over the wire.

If the CRC / checksum / MD5 of the file matches what is already in the
repository, SVN should simply note the fact, not transfer the file, but
mark it as being under version control.

(I realize this is probably in a bug or enhancement request... so I'm
probably just venting.)

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Received on Thu Nov 2 19:30:59 2006