Bug? svn revert does not forget past scheduled deletion of directories

Hello,

it seems, that 'svn revert' does not totally get rid of information of a
former deletion schedule of a directory. Please see the following
(output of svn command indented):

  # First create a repos to play with
  svnadmin create bug_deldir.repos

  # Now create the structure necessary to demonstrate the problem
  svn mkdir file:///$(pwd)/bug_deldir.repos/test

    Committed revision 1.
  svn mkdir file:///$(pwd)/bug_deldir.repos/test/dir -m ""

    Committed revision 2.

  # Get a fresh working copy of the above
  svn co file:///$(pwd)/bug_deldir.repos/test
    A test/dir
    Checked out revision 2.

  # Now the game begin
  cd test

  # Remove (accidentally) a directory under svn's control
  rm -rf dir

  # Ask 'svn' and get the information, that you messed with the contents

  svn st
    ! dir

  # Okay back-up and check if all is like before ...

  svn revert .
  svn st
    ! dir

  # 'svn revert' didn't work as was to be expected by documentation!
  # So take 'svn update' now and check again:

  svn update .
    A dir
    Updated to revision 2.
  svn st

  # Yay! All okay, as I never did anything wrong ... :-)
  # Now I think, I will schedule 'dir' to be removed from svn's control
  # Do not forget to check the outcome ...

  svn delete dir
    D dir
  svn st
    D dir

  # Nice! All as I have expected. But now I change my mind and 'revert'
  # the scheduled deletion. Do not forget to check what svn things about

  svn revert dir
    Reverted 'dir'
  svn st

  # Okay 'svn st' did not find any modification. All as it was before.
  # Now do the same mistake done before. Remove 'dir' without scheduling
  # any deletion that time. Do not miss to check, what svn things about

  rm -rf dir
  svn st
    D dir

  # NAAAHHHH!!! What's that? Auto-scheduled deletion. Nay nay nay :-(
  # Worser then, if I do 'svn ci' the deletion will really get committed

In summary, if I remove a directory that is under Subversion's control
without scheduleing a deletion before, Subversion will report it and
deny to commit the mess I did!

But only as long as I *never* did schedule said directory to be deleted
any time in the past of my working copy. If I did (and reverted that
deletion before commit), any subsequent physical remove of the directory
will result into a auto-scheduled deletion that will be committed too if
I did not pay attention to the output!

I think, that is a bug, as it is different for deleted-and-then-reverted
files that behave as I would expect.

What do you think?

Ciao,
Clemens.

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Received on Wed Jun 20 09:42:29 2007