Julian Foad created SVN-4705:
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Summary: svn commit --parents option
Key: SVN-4705
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4705
Project: Subversion
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Julian Foad
I propose the addition of an equivalent to the --parents option to "svn
commit", to check in the directory structure as well as any files specified.
I understand that with svn add, the --parents option is available. However, the
use case I have in mind is one that I come across quite often, involving
changelists and SVN moves.
If I add files to changelist, I expect to be able to commit any changes to them
quickly and easily - that's the point, right? But if I perform an SVN move on
these items, to a directory which is not yet committed, because I cannot yet
add directories to the changelist, when I go to commit the files, I get the
error
{code}
svn: E200009: '/some/new/directory/here' is not known to exist in the
repository and is not part of the commit, yet its child
'/some/new/directory/here/file_on_changelist.txt' is part of the commit
{code}
If I then try and commit those files, as sort of a "pre-commit" commit, then i
get the error
{code}
Cannot commit '/some/directory/here' because it was moved from
'/other/directory/here/' which is not part of the commit; both sides of the
move must be committed together
{code}
The workaround for this seems to involve a mess of committing these directories
together, with the option --depth=empty, and then committing with the
changelist. Alternatively, I could just skip the --depth=empty, and let the
commit handle the fiels as well - but then, what was the point in making a
changelist? I still end up formulating some long command!
I was asking about this in the #svn IRC - here is the chat log:
http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/svn?date=2017-11-14#l21
??Sam White (sixquidsquid), 2017-11-14, in [\[RFC\] svn commit --parents option
needed|https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5f65a026d177eee8cf94fbb43d55b7ac7fcaa16bda914eea2d90c31c@%3Cdev.subversion.apache.org%3E]??
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