Re: .svn directories (no doubt) revisited

On Nov 16, 2006, at 18:02, Tim Hill wrote:

>> Abandoning the .svn folder strategy and instead storing the data
>> in a folder outside the working copy, as you suggest, would break
>> a characteristic of the current layout, which is that any
>> subfolder of a working copy is itself a completely functioning
>> working copy. Not sure how valuable that characteristic is, but I
>> have made use of it a couple times.
>
> Really?

Yes.

> Have you tried this?
>
> svn co http://server/repo/foo -N
> cd foo
> svn co http://server/repo/foo/bar
>
> These commands work, but you actually have a broken working copy.
> You will *not* get the same as:
>
> svn co http://server/repo/foo
>
> What happens is "foo" contains no record of "bar", so you end up
> with a messed-up disjoint working copy.

No, I don't use svn co -N. Yes, using it in the way you've described
will result in weirdness. Don't do it that way. To accomplish what I
think you want, the correct commands are:

svn co http://server/repo/foo -N
up foo

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Received on Fri Nov 17 02:30:54 2006