[jira] [Created] (SVN-4778) Shelving: remind user if old 1.10 shelves exist

["Julian Foad (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Julian Foad created SVN-4778:
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             Summary: Shelving: remind user if old 1.10 shelves exist
                 Key: SVN-4778
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4778
             Project: Subversion
          Issue Type: Sub-task
            Reporter: Julian Foad


If old shelves created by Subversion 1.10 exist in the WC, shelving should remind the user, for these reasons:
 # to help the user avoid losing their work (perhaps forgetting it exists and deleting the WC);
 # to help the user read the names of their old shelves (as the filenames are encoded);
 # to encourage the user to free up the ".svn/shelves" namespace

The reminder could be issued when "svn shelf-list" is used.

It would be sufficient to list the names of the old shelves, with a note explaining that the user can restore them using "svn patch .svn/shelves/FOO". It is not necessary to provide any further commands to manipulate them.

Note that a 1.10 shelf is in the form of a patch file and does not contain enough metadata to be converted easily, deterministically, automatically to a newer format.



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