RE: <file-name>.svn-revert files under .svn/prop-base directory ...

Thanks so much for your quick response.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. :-( When would a file.svn-revert file be created for the "file" example below? On a merge? A regular commit following modifications? Does anything in the logs distinguish these files? And would I expect the file.svn-revert file to be there for the life of the working copy?

-----Original Message-----
From: Bert Huijben [mailto:bert_at_qqmail.nl]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2010 1:37 PM
To: Ring, Nolan; users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: RE: <file-name>.svn-revert files under .svn/prop-base directory ...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ring_Nolan_at_emc.com [mailto:Ring_Nolan_at_emc.com]
> Sent: donderdag 24 juni 2010 14:43
> To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
> Subject: <file-name>.svn-revert files under .svn/prop-base directory
> ...
>
> All,
>
> I'm wondering under what circumstances does a <file-name>.svn-revert
> file get created under the .svn/prop-base directory.

When a file is replaced by a different file, where that last file has an
history. In this case wc-1.0 needs one additional level of history.

E.g.
svn rm file
svn cp other-file file
or svn cp URL_at_rev file

This feature was actually added in Subversion 1.4. Before that you would get
an error that you had to commit the delete before adding a new file with
history.

(And in Subversion 1.7 this will be handled in a completely different way as
part of the WC-NG work)

        Bert
Received on 2010-06-24 20:43:21 CEST