Re: "svn update" fails to remove folder that still contains ignored files

Markus Kuhn wrote on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 at 13:55 -0000:
> Aren't ignored files those that are by definition unimportant or easily
> remade?
>

No, they are those that don't show up as "?" in 'svn status'. Sometimes
those files have manual effort in them [1]. Sometimes not (e.g., editor
backup files).

[1] http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#ignore-commit

> Shouldn't svn update be at liberty to destroy any ignored files located
> in a folder that it is about to remove?
>

We could add a switch to do that, perhaps.

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Received on 2009-11-20 15:07:41 CET