Re: [Issue 1532] Switch a file to a dir: can't switch it back to the file

[John Szakmeister <jo...@szakmeister.net>]

maxb@tigris.org wrote:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1532
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> User maxb changed the following:
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> ------- Additional comments from maxb@tigris.org Mon Apr  4 09:10:10 -0700 2005 -------
> Actually, there is a good technical reason why this can't work.
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> For exactly the same reason that you cannot checkout a file, you cannot switch a
> file. That is because our WC format and code currently demand that files be
> direct children of the URL of their containing directory.
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> So, the "fix" for this issue is teach switch to maintain this invariant, which
> it currently is willing to break, thus trashing the working copy.
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> I am working on this.

Can we just make sure that the target and the switch target are of the
same type?  I see no reason why we should limit switch to just
directories unnecessarily.  I believe I may already have a patch that
does just this (I asked about what the community would like to do in the
past, but got no feedback, so I let it drop).

-John

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