Julian Foad wrote on Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:32 +0000: > When 'svn patch' applies an 'add file' patch onto a WC path whose local > schedule is 'delete', it changes the schedule to 'replace'. > > Sequences such as this... > > > svn rm foo > > svn diff > rm-foo.diff > > svn patch --reverse-diff rm-foo.diff > > or this... > > > svn add foo > > svn diff > add-foo.diff > > svn commit > > svn patch --reverse-diff add-foo.diff > > svn patch add-foo.diff > > ... result in 'foo' being scheduled as 'replace'.
In both of these examples, the result is a working copy in which a file is scheduled to be replaced (without history) by another file that is textually identical to it. Do you also have examples for wanting to reduce a replace into a modification where the replacing file would be textually different from the replaced file? > It is not inherently necessary that shelving and manual use of 'svn > patch' should share the same solution, but in this case I think that is > best. Cheers, Daniel
