Bug: Locally deleted file wrongly accepted as log message string.

I'm pretty sure this is a bug, but wanted to check here first before filing a ticket.

Normally, if you accidentally use a local versioned file path as a log message, you will get an error:

  $ svn --version
  svn, version 1.10.0 (r1827917)
  [...]
  $ svn commit -m locally_versioned_path
  svn: E205005: The log message is a pathname (was -F intended?); use '--force-log' to override
  $

It doesn't matter whether 'locally_versioned_path' is modified or not. It doesn't have to be part of the commit; the mere fact that it's a path under version control is why SVN decides it likely wasn't intended to be the log message.

Now try this:

  $ svn status
  $ svn rm locally_versioned_path
  D locally_versioned_path
  $ svn commit -m locally_versioned_path
  Deleting locally_versioned_path
  Committing transaction...
  Committed revision 1729.
  $

Oops :-).

Because the *working file* is no longer there, Subversion fails to decide that the path likely wasn't intended to be the log message -- even though obviously Subversion should come to the same conclusion here that it would have come to if the path were not locally deleted.

If we agree this is a bug, I'll file it. Maybe I'll even fix it -- no promises; depends how much I'm able to sleep on the plane this weekend :-). In any case, I first wanted to make sure there is consensus that this is a bug. Do we agree?

Best regards,
-Karl
Received on 2018-06-29 09:52:16 CEST