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

Markus Kuhn wrote on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 at 15:10 -0000:
> Daniel Shahaf wrote on 2009-11-20 14:06 UTC:
> > > 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.
>
> I would find such a switch very useful! It would help me to avoid a lot
> of manual cleanup of folders that should have vanished on their own.
>

By "we" I meant "you" :-). You're always invited to join dev@ and
discuss this feature + implementation plans (preferably *before* diving
into the code).

http://subversion.tigris.org/hacking.html#patches

> How about:
>
> --dont-preserve-ignored : do not preserve ignored files when (re)moving folders
>

*nod* ok, but option name is the last thing we care about at this point in
the implementation (see http://114506.bikeshed.com/).

> Markus
>
>

Good luck,

Daniel

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