> -----Original Message----- > From: John Maher [mailto:jo...@rotair.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 1:34 PM > To: Johan Corveleyn > Cc: Thorsten Schöning; users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: RE: Switching > > > The problem isn't something in the way, the problem is something is > there when nothing is expected. There is a directory in one branch but > not the other. Subversion half empties it when switching to the branch > without the directory. Then when switching back to the branch where > the directory lives it complains that it can not add it because it is > there. But that very same directory was part of the branch that is > complaining that it can not add it because it is there. >
Okay, this isn't a svn issue. This sounds more like a "I did a build against trunk, switched to branch B, and then did a build of B in a dirty workspace." That's just asking for trouble in terms of build accuracy and build repeatability; it's a bad practice in general. The whole "trunk, switch to B, switch back to trunk" directory conflict may be an annoyance, but a 'make clean' build option or cleanup script run after the switch sounds like something that you need to implement.
