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RE: internal dirs showing up on update

From: Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:18:57 -0500

> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 13:19, Nuno Carapeto <carapeto_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2/17/11 12:50 PM, Bob Archer wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I have so SVN repos (subversion) and I use them with no
> proble. But
> >>>> when we do updates/commints on client (tortoise) we always get
> teh
> >>>> internal directories:
> >>>>
> >>>> conf
> >>>> dav
> >>>> db
> >>>> hooks
> >>>> locks
> >>>> format
> >>>> README.txt
> >>>>
> >>>> These es are internal and should not appear right? How do I
> remove
> >>>> this?
> >>>
> >>> I assume these folder are in your repository. Just go into the
> repository
> >>> browser in TortoiseSVn and delete the folders.
> >>
> >> It sounds like somebody checked in a copy of a repo into the
> repo, in
> >> which case it's safe to delete.
> >>
> >> Blair
> >
> > Ok!
> > Thank you all for the support.
> > As suggested I just deleted it and committed them and its working
> properly.
> > Still I found it odd that some random user would put them there
> when they
> > don't actually know what folders are in the server.
> > Plus it happened in at least 2 repos. I suspect some random
> client bug :S
> > Any way, thanks a lot for the help
>
> Not that surprising, actually. I've had a number of users who,
> early
> in their use of Subversion, would create a repository when they
> meant
> to create a working copy (checkout). It's very possible that
> someone
> did this, then realized their error, did a checkout to the same
> directory, then committed everything.

Agreed... I very much doubt there is a client bug... more like a "user" bug.

BOb
Received on 2011-02-18 20:19:39 CET

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