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Re: Strange behavior on directory delete/commit

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2011a_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 03:18:58 -0500

On Aug 3, 2011, at 03:17, Dominik Psenner wrote:

>> I doubt it. Or rather, the behavior is not broken. The user is broken. As I
>> said: "svn commit foo" should have worked fine if you had not run "rmdir
>> foo" beforehand. Don't run "rmdir foo". Just run "svn rm foo" followed by
>> "svn commit foo" and everything should work.
>
> True - it's nothing totally new to me. I just doubt the lusers who are going
> to use the frontend I'm writing for them understand the difference. :-)

Then you must explain it to them. :) To move or delete items in a working copy, you must use svn commands. You must not use OS commands. That's just how it is.
Received on 2011-08-03 10:19:55 CEST

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