Re: Questions about Subversion...

James Coleman wrote:
> [...]
> There are some other ~messy~ things that trip up users with merging.
> I don't think I can cover everything but:
[...]
> * if dirs are deleted in svn,
> often users local copy has unversioned files (e.g. left over from testing and building) in
> dirs, svn up or merge is cautious and will not remove unversioned items so commands can fail
> and puzzle users.
> This is also problem for svn switch.
<snip>

Perfectly right: files not "covered" by svn under a working copy prevent
the user to really use the switch and branching (at least pre1.5)
feature... the best practice in that case seems to properly set the
'svn:ignore' properties.
Once all file are either under revision or covered by a 'ignore rule',
then everything works like a charm :-)

regards,

florian

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