Recurse. Show all the info.
On Aug 27, 2010 11:33 AM, "Julian Foad" <[email protected]> wrote: > In single-DB world, the WC generated in merge_tests.py 16, a directory > 'A/B/F/Q' has been deleted from disk without informing Subversion, so > its status is 'missing'. > > Look at the difference between these two "svn status" runs on it: > > $ svn st A/B/F -vu > ! 2 2 jrandom A/B/F/Q > ! 2 2 jrandom A/B/F/foo > 1 1 jrandom A/B/F > Status against revision: 3 > > $ svn st A/B/F -v > 1 1 jrandom A/B/F > ! 2 2 jrandom A/B/F/Q > ! 3 3 jrandom A/B/F/Q/R > ! 3 3 jrandom A/B/F/Q/R/bar > ! 3 3 jrandom A/B/F/Q/baz > ! 2 2 jrandom A/B/F/foo > > In the old multi-DB WC world, status was not able to recurse into a > missing directory because the metadata's unavailable, so it didn't, > neither in local mode nor in '-u' mode. (In '-u' mode of course it > could find out what children of 'Q' are in the repo, but it didn't.) > > Now, in single-DB, it can report the whole WC status. But should it? > > I don't know whether to make it stop there (for back compat?) or > recurse. Either way, the current inconsistency is, I think, wrong. > > Any insight? > > - Julian > >
