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Re: Strange status if .svn folder removed

From: Steve Armstrong <steve.armstrong_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 17:31:33 -0400

Wow, that was a fast reply.

Ok, I'll just work around it for now then. Thanks for getting back to me.

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Hyrum K. Wright <
hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Steve Armstrong <
> steve.armstrong_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm seeing strange behaviour on a Win7_64 machine running the 1.6.9
>> command-line binaries.
>>
>> I have a working copy checked out (C:\wc). Inside it, there's an empty
>> folder that's source-controlled (C:\wc\logs). If I delete the .svn folder
>> from within logs, then doing an "svn st" in the base folder (C:\wc) gives
>> me:
>>
>> C:\wc>svn st
>> ~ log
>>
>> Trying to update to "bring back" the folder shows a delete:
>> C:\wc>svn up
>> D log
>> Updated to revision 200374.
>>
>> The folder is still there, without a .svn folder inside it, and svn
>> doesn't know what to do with it.
>> C:\wc>svn st
>> ? log
>>
>> At this point, the repository still shows the folder (the delete didn't
>> happen on the server). After deleting the log folder, svn thinks
>> everything's fine (even though the folder is now totally missing from the
>> working copy)
>>
>> C:\wc>svn st
>>
>> Reverting the folder to bring it back does nothing:
>> C:\wc>svn revert log
>> Skipped 'log'
>>
>> Doing a general update doesn't work:
>> C:\wc>svn up
>> At revision 200376.
>>
>> Only by doing an update directly to log can I get the folder back:
>> C:\wc>svn up log
>> A log
>> Updated to revision 200376.
>>
>> There are reasons that I probably shouldn't have this skeleton under
>> source control in the first place, but this seems like
>> broken behavior regardless. Should I file it as a bug? Or is it already
>> known?
>>
>
> I wouldn't file a bug. Per-directory .svn directories are disappearing in
> 1.7, and it's unlikely that the bug (if that's what it is) would be address
> specifically for the 1.6.x line.
>
> -Hyrum
>
Received on 2010-05-26 23:32:10 CEST

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