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Re: SVN for src (was Re: Binutils 2.18 prep)
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:45:14AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:11:15PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> > > You know, I think we can do this even without having to butcher the
> > > layout of the repository. Check out a directory containing just the
> > > script, and have it use "svn switch -N" at the end to pick up the top
> > > level files.
> >
> > The thing to watch out for is an svn update to a different revision,
> > which has a tendency to re-populate all the missing directories. I've
> > gotten bitten by this a few times trying to track down gcc bugs by
> > date; it kept pulling in the ada/java sources and I kept trying to
> > delete them.
>
> Can you be more specific? I tried to reproduce this, to find problems
> with my tentative plan, but I couldn't. It might be disrupted if you
> use -r before and after the creation of a directory, but I think only
> for that directory.
Never mind. I see now.
% svn switch file:///space/codesourcery/local-svk/local/empty testsuite
% svn up
% svn up -r330
D testsuite
...
svn: Directory 'testsuite' is missing
% svn up -r330
A testsuite
A testsuite/test-pexecute.c
...
Whoops.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery