Re: Has Subversion's attitude toward dataloss changed significantly since 0.27?

At 9:22 AM +0100 3/21/07, Jan Hendrik wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote on 9 Mar 2007, 16:03, at least in part:
>
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>
> > ... Later on, I made a change to one of the source
> > files changed by the find/xargs combo, and when I went to commit
>> *that* change, the 'svn commit' aborted with a message about
>> file-corruption in one of the .svn directories.
>>
> > What apparently had happened was the find/xargs combo had changed
> > both the workarea source file, and the copy of it saved in the
> > .svn directory.
>
>This is pretty old by now and I already saw replies by others (that's
>how Myrealbox worked the last few weeks, hope this gmail will do
>better), but yet I am surprised that unix commands would touch
>hidden directories - that's what .svn folders are, aren't they? -
>except when told so explicitly.

If you do 'find * -etc', then it will skip the .svn directories in
the directory you are in. If you do 'find . -etc', then find starts
at the current directory, and descends into all subdirectories,
including hidden ones such as .svn.

If you want to skip .svn directories, you need to add a few extra
terms to your 'find' command. Eg:

     find . -name Makefile\*

becomes:

     find . \( -type d -name .svn -false -prune \) -o -name 'Makefile*'

(I guess you don't really need the '-type d' part, but I like to
be extra careful)

> > Garance
>
>Like the flower? :)

I have never seen the flower in real life.
For more trivia WRT the name, see also:
     http://www.rpi.edu/~drosehn/Personal/Gad-Name.html

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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