> -----Original Message----- > From: Thorsten Schöning [mailto:tschoen...@am-soft.de] > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 12:21 PM > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Switching > > How would you like Subversion to work in your case? From my > understanding it breaks down to something generated some files for some > reason in one of your branches and now you want to switch form that > branch to another which does not contain the base directory of the > generated files. What should subversion do with your generated files it > doesn't know anything about? > > I don't see how this problem can be solved by any tool. >
Part of his frustration is that the files in question are listed in the global-ignores. So... maybe a feature request to have a 'svn switch' option to take global-ignores into consideration when deciding whether to keep or delete local files?
