Adding the entries file to your working copy (or how to break your workingcopy the hard way)

[Bert Huijben <rh...@sharpsvn.net>]

As expected this doesn't work:

# svn add .svn\entries
svn: '.svn' is not a working copy
svn: Can't open file '.svn\.svn\entries': The system cannot find the path
specified.

But I was really surprised when I tried:

# svn add --parents .svn\entries
A         D:\WC\.svn
A         D:\WC\.svn\entries

(And it even allowed committing!)

This was with Subversion 1.5.5.


Expected behavior:
The working copy library and/or client library should have denied the
addition of the .svn directory (and thereby its children).

	Bert

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RE: Adding the entries file to your working copy (or how to break your workingcopy the hard way)

[Bert Huijben <rh...@sharpsvn.net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bert Huijben [mailto:rhuijben@sharpsvn.net]
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 12:03 AM
> To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Adding the entries file to your working copy (or how to break
> your workingcopy the hard way)
> 
> As expected this doesn't work:
> 
> # svn add .svn\entries
> svn: '.svn' is not a working copy
> svn: Can't open file '.svn\.svn\entries': The system cannot find the
> path
> specified.
> 
> But I was really surprised when I tried:
> 
> # svn add --parents .svn\entries
> A         D:\WC\.svn
> A         D:\WC\.svn\entries
> 
> (And it even allowed committing!)
> 
> This was with Subversion 1.5.5.

I'm working on a fix for the working copy issues of --parents

Other examples that add .svn to your working copy

# svn mkdir --parents .svn/folder
# svn cp --parents file .svn/folder2/file

We also have open --parents issues on urls. 
See
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=101
2076

	Bert

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