[jira] [Created] (SVN-4705) svn commit --parents option

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

Julian Foad created SVN-4705:
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             Summary: svn commit --parents option
                 Key: SVN-4705
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4705
             Project: Subversion
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Julian Foad


I propose the addition of an equivalent to the --parents option to "svn commit", to check in the directory structure as well as any files specified. 

I understand that with svn add, the --parents option is available. However, the use case I have in mind is one that I come across quite often, involving changelists and SVN moves. 

If I add files to changelist, I expect to be able to commit any changes to them quickly and easily - that's the point, right? But if I perform an SVN move on these items, to a directory which is not yet committed, because I cannot yet add directories to the changelist, when I go to commit the files, I get the error 

{code}
svn: E200009: '/some/new/directory/here' is not known to exist in the repository and is not part of the commit, yet its child '/some/new/directory/here/file_on_changelist.txt' is part of the commit
{code}

If I then try and commit those files, as sort of a "pre-commit" commit, then i get the error 

{code}
Cannot commit '/some/directory/here' because it was moved from '/other/directory/here/' which is not part of the commit; both sides of the move must be committed together
{code}

The workaround for this seems to involve a mess of committing these directories together, with the option --depth=empty, and then committing with the changelist. Alternatively, I could just skip the --depth=empty, and let the commit handle the fiels as well - but then, what was the point in making a changelist? I still end up formulating some long command!

I was asking about this in the #svn IRC - here is the chat log: http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/svn?date=2017-11-14#l21

??Sam White (sixquidsquid), 2017-11-14, in [\[RFC\] svn commit --parents option needed|https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5f65a026d177eee8cf94fbb43d55b7ac7fcaa16bda914eea2d90c31c@%3Cdev.subversion.apache.org%3E]??




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