svn commit --non-recursive dir_path gives error "Cannot non-recursively commit a directory deletion"

[Jim Correia <ji...@pobox.com>]

I have a wrapper script (wraps the command line client and doesn't  
use language bindigns) that I use for certain operations because I  
want to ensure that the commit only happens on the passes paths and  
doesn't recursively process directories. The script, at a high level,  
does

At a high level, the script writes the paths to a temp file, and runs

svn commit --non-recursive --targets temp_file

Suppose one path is a directory that has had a propchange (and I want  
that propchange to be committed, but not other pending changes in  
that directory's children). --non-recursive is necessary here.

Suppose another path is a directory that has been deleted - --non- 
recursive errors out here. (These changes ought to be part of the  
same change set. Using the language bindings isn't really an option  
here - it adds all sorts of complexity to a simple wrapper.)

So to my question...

Is there any reason why

svn commit --non-recursive dir_path

generates that error? One the one hand, I can see the software saying  
that I asked it to do something that didn't make sense, or that it  
couldn't do. OTOH, in my usage pattern it is necessary to pass this  
flag, and I can't see that anything else would be expected. It is  
impossible to remove a directory node without removing its children  
and (ignoring implementation details) it doesn't feel like a  
recursive operation anyway - just feels like cutting a single node  
out of the tree.

Would it be possible to patch the software (I can investigate writing  
the patch, but I am not an expert on the svn source) such that

svn commit dir_path

and

svn commit --non-recursive dir_path

simply do the same thing without erroring out?

Thanks,
Jim

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Re: svn commit --non-recursive dir_path gives error "Cannot non-recursively commit a directory deletion"

[Jim Correia <ji...@pobox.com>]

On Jul 24, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Jim Correia wrote:

> I have a wrapper script

In fact, the wrapper script is irrelevant since the same problem  
occurs when trying to commit a directory deletion and some other non- 
recursive commit in the same revision.

svn commit --non-recursive dir_with_prop_change deleted_dir

Jim

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