On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:32 PM, Johan Corveleyn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm following through on a thread I started on the users list, about > "sparsifying a working copy" [1] (i.e. invoking 'svn up --set-depth > empty' on a parent directory, in order to selectively retrieve > specific children later). It looks like there is a bug when "emptying" > a directory like that, and I'd like to get some opinions here about > the expected behaviour. > > When making a directory depth=empty, svn is careful not to lose local > modifications (modified files are left there as part of the sparse > working copy -- same for added files). However, local deletes are lost > (and consequently also moves are broken, only the A+ is left). It > think that's a bug, it makes it hard to confidently make a working > copy more sparse.
Filed an issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4636 -- Johan
