Re: Adopting unversioned directory on svn up

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_apache.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 07:23:21PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Maybe Stefan Sperling (in cc) or others working on the tree conflict
>> > resolver have more insight on this ...?
>>
>> Stefan?
>>
>> For directories it seems like a no-brainer to avoid the conflict.
>
> Indeed, adding a resolver option for this should not be very difficult.

I'd opt for not having a conflict in the first place.

> Would you like to try writing a patch for this? I think this is a nice
> problem for someone who would be interested in contributing to the new
> conflict resolver code.

I'd love to but I'm chronically out of time..

> I don't know if or when I'll find time to teach the new conflict resolver
> about unversioned obstructions before we release 1.10.0. I'm already rather
> busy with much more difficult resolver problems than this one, problems which
> I consider much more important for SVN's core use cases (such as moves).
> So I believe my time is better spent on these other problems.

-- 
Olaf