Changelists

["Damian L. Powell" <da...@shadow-angel.com>]

Hi,

In this message (link below) Ben Collins-Sussman said that Subversion
1.5 should return an error if the user attempts to add a 'non-file'
(i.e. a directory) to a changelist. Is this still the intention? Is it
not possible to allow SVN 1.5 to add directories to a changelist
instead?

http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&&msgNo=132072


TTFN,
Damian.




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Re: Changelists

["C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net>]

[re-Cc:ing the dev-list]

Damian Powell wrote:
> Do you have any plans to allow changelists to include directories in
> Subversion 1.5?

No.  1.5 is closed to new features and enhancements at this point.

> If not, when do you think that might get included?

I can't speculate on that.  Maybe 1.6; maybe later.  It really depends on
how strongly the need arises from the community of Subversion users, and how
the developers perceive its relative priority compared to other things.  Of
course, patches from willing and able volunteers vastly tip the balance of
things in favor of feature inclusion.  :-)

> Purely out of interest: why are directories excluded from changelists in 
> the first place?

Honestly?  It was hard.  At the time the changelists feature was developed,
the exact meaning of a directory with a changelist wasn't sufficiently
solidified, so rather than spin our wheels guessing about what users wanted,
we decided to delay that portion of the feature until folks had a chance to
use the files-only support and give qualified feedback about what they saw
as lacking.

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net>
CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Distributed Development On Demand

Re: Changelists

["C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net>]

Damian L. Powell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In this message (link below) Ben Collins-Sussman said that Subversion
> 1.5 should return an error if the user attempts to add a 'non-file'
> (i.e. a directory) to a changelist. Is this still the intention? Is it
> not possible to allow SVN 1.5 to add directories to a changelist
> instead?
> 
> http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&&msgNo=132072

We do not currently support directories as changelist members.  But we don't 
error out, either -- we simply indicate that the directory is "skipped".

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net>
CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Distributed Development On Demand