RE: Mixing recursive and non-recursive commits

If do a google search for "svn commit parents" you'll see I'm not the first to unofficially request this and come across this issue. I suspect most others just kludged around this and found a subtree to checkin with additional work involved. I see the need for this quite often when I'm running scripts that interactive with multiple directory trees. Quite often the scripts create new dirs with new files that I want to checkin. So I add these with --parents. When completed though I may want to selectively checkin certain files w/ a given comment (not the whole subtree).

Regarding your corner cases if we stick to the explanation that only newly added parent directories (and their properties set) will get added to the commit list then this handles these scenarios. In the first scenario the property updates in A would NOT be committed because A is not a newly added parent directory. In the second corner case items in the changelist plus any newly added parent directories is what would be committed.

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Martin [mailto:philip.martin_at_wandisco.com]
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2013 12:05 PM
To: Braun, Eric
Cc: Stefan Sperling; users_at_subversion.apache.org; Moe, Mark
Subject: Re: Mixing recursive and non-recursive commits

"Braun, Eric" <eric.braun_at_medtronic.com> writes:

> I don't know why this is
> should be complicated to do from the command line when GUI clients are
> already doing this today. I would use a GUI client to do this work in
> most cases but GUI's don't work as well when defining
> wildcards/filtering (*/*/file for example for a commit target).

It probably would not be that complicated to implement something, although the code in question is already quite complex. One problem is determining exactly what to implement in the corner cases. The bigger obstacle is determining whether this feature will be useful. How many people are going to use it? I have never made a commit where this behaviour would have been helpful but other people use Subversion differently.

One corner case: suppose I have a directory A/ in the working copy and repository. I add directory B/, files A/f and B/f and set properties associated with the new files on A/ and B/. Now a commit --with-parents of A/f and B/f includes B/, because it is added, and that includes the property changes on B/. Do the property changes on A/ get included in the commit or not? Will we need another option to give the other behaviour?

Another corner case: how does it interact with --changelist? The commit is limited to targets in the changelist so I suppose --with-parents would only apply to those items?

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