>I'm not sure you understand the kinds problems the new working copy
>format is settling.
For me it settles the major problem of multiple .svn folders in a checkout.
> You must still use svn commands instead of OS
>commands in 1.7. That won't change. I don't think it will ever change.
>The reason is that Subversion tracks operations explicitly, rather than
>implicitly. In other words, Subversion needs to modify meta-data in
>the .svn directory if you change something. If you run an OS-level
>command the actual disk state and the meta-data get out of sync.
*sarcastic* The user does not care what levers subversion needs to pull to
show him what parts of a file were modified. */sarcastic*
>Subversion is not like git which goes "Woaaahh... I just woke up and
>now... what??? What did the user DO??? Well, whatever, I'm just gonna
>take a wild guess to deal with this and go back to bed..."
Please correct me if I'm wrong:
Subversion is still an observer and whatever a user does, he must tell
Subversion what he did in cases where subversion can't understand it by
itself (i.e. file/folder rename/move that preserve history across the
revisions). Every VCS I know works like this. Maybe one invents a VCS
filesystem that can hook into the filesystem operations, but that's
something that will be written on other papers. ;-)
Back to topic:
The current working copy layout is unable to handle the usecase I described
since it needs the missing meta-data that was stored within the deleted
folder itself. Thus Subversion < 1.7 would need a special logic to handle
these cases. One could discuss whether this should be fixed so that < 1.7
behaves on folder deletes just alike file deletes. I leave that decision up
to the devs since I'm unable to estimate the costs.
The new working copy layout does not have the meta-data within subfolders
and thus is able to commit just that change. HOORAY! This issue *can* be
solved with WC-NG without special logics!
--quote Ryan Schmidt--
I also have a feeling Subversion 1.7's new working copy arrangement will fix
or at least change this behavior.
--eof quote Ryan Schmidt--
Greetings,
D.
Received on 2011-08-03 11:28:42 CEST