Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> On Sep 8, 2009, at 21:49, Chen (陈) Jun (军) wrote:
>
>> On Aug, 19 2006, when svn was at his 1.3.x, I asked a question on this
>> mailing list, "SVN does not allow checking out parent dir if its child
>> dir has been checked out",
>> see http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-08/0881.shtml
>>
>> But now, svn 1.6.x still does not make improvement on this problem,
>> except that the error message is a bit different.
>>
>> =========
>> svn: Failed to add directory 'ChjTrivials\ichsize': a versioned
>> directory of the same name already exists
>> =========
>>
>> I'd like to get some idea about this issue from you kind users on this
>> mailing list.
>
> I believe "svn checkout --force" does what you want. This option was
> added in Subversion 1.5.
>
>
>
No, I have tried it long before, on svn 1.5.x and 1.6.x; --force does
help. It seems, --force just cope with those UNVERSIONED files which is
allowed to be overwritten by a checkout.
And what makes me really curious is the Subversion dev team doesn't care
about this as well, from this thread from Sep 2006.
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-09/0095.shtml --no reply for that
thread.
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*陈 军*
*Chen Jun*
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