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Re: Won't delete locally modified directory 'wrongdirectory'

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007b_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: 2007-12-23 13:09:04 CET

On Dec 10, 2007, at 03:47, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> When trying to switch my working copy of MacPorts base from trunk
> to the release_1_6 branch, an error occurs. I know why an error
> occurs, but I think the displayed error message is wrong. Observe:
>
> $ svn co -r 31856 http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/
> trunk/base
> $ cd base
> $ ./configure
> $ svn switch -r 31856 http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/macports/
> branches/release_1_6/base
> U configure
> svn: Won't delete locally modified directory 'src'
> svn: Left locally modified or unversioned files
> $
>
> There are several differences between trunk and the release_1_6
> branch at this point, but the only directory difference is that
> trunk has a new directory src/pathconf. Switching from trunk to
> release_1_6 should therefore cause the src/pathconf directory to be
> deleted in the working copy. No other directories should be deleted
> by the switch. Running ./configure causes new unversioned files to
> appear in the src/pathconf directory, hence it is locally-modified.
> So shouldn't Subversion have said "Won't delete locally-modified
> directory 'pathconf'" instead?
>
>
> The client is running Mac OS X 10.4.11 Intel with Subversion 1.4.5
> installed from MacPorts. The server is also running Subversion
> 1.4.5 installed from MacPorts, served over http (and https), but I
> don't know what version of Mac OS X they're running or whether it's
> an Intel or PowerPC Mac server.

I still see this with the 1.4.6 client and I didn't get any responses
to my initial message so I thought I'd ask again. Am I
misunderstanding the error message, or am I right that the error
message is incorrect?

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