On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Nicolas Sylvain<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > gclient has nothing to do with this case. "svn update src/" was trying to
> > add a directory called "src/bleh", but "src/bleh" already existed, so
> "svn
> > update" failed.
>
> Sorry to back-seat drive, but can't you do something like
>  "svn status | xargs rm -rf"
> before syncing?
>
> (In git it's a builtin: "git clean -f" to delete all files that aren't
> officially part of the repository.)


I think this could work provided we set svn:ignore properly for directories
that gclient inserted into src/.

-Darin



>
>
> > The only thing gclient might want to do, is clobber your tree, and try
> > again.  We used to have stuff like that, but they are all disabled AFAIK,
> I
> > lost too many important files because gclient wanted to be nice and clean
> up
> > my machine.
>
> I don't understand this paragraph, which might explain why my above
> proposal is dumb.
>
> >
>

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