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Re: Feature request - SVN command to clean a working copy of all unversioned and ignored files and directories

From: Giulio Troccoli <giulio.troccoli_at_mediatelgroup.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:10:44 +0000

On 09/03/12 15:03, Simon Dean wrote:
>> From: Giulio Troccoli [mailto:giulio.troccoli_at_mediatelgroup.co.uk]
>>
>> Why would the CI implement a different solution for each VCS? Those, I
>> understand, are files created during the build process, they have got nothing
>> to do with SVN or any other VCS. And it's not a SVN specific implementation
>> as, again, the files were not created by SVN so they've got nothing to do with
>> it.
>>
>> From Subversion's point of view the the WC is absolutely fine. The
>> unversioned files are ignore and there are no missing files (and if there are a
>> simple svn up will restore them)
>>
>> But maybe I'm missing something?
> A CI implementation would have to implement it specifically each VCS as it would have to call the VCS to found out what files/directories are unversioned and ignored.

So the CI would rely on another piece of software, SVN in this case, to
know what it has created in terms of files. Well, it doesn't seem right
to me.
Received on 2012-03-09 16:11:18 CET

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