On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 08:14:58AM +0200, Markus Schaber wrote: > Hi, Stefan, > > Von: Stefan Sperling [mailto:[email protected]] > > > When trying to commit a child of a deleted node, svn commit says nothing > > and just exists with status zero. > > > > This surprised me, because it complains loudly about committing children > > of copies (see http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-07/0773.shtml). > > Shouldn't we raise some sort of error for the delete case, too? > > For me, this is not as surprising. Chidren of deleted nodes are also > deleted. And it perfectly makes sense for the server to get the > deletion of the child without getting the deletion of the parent. > > But getting the addition of a copied child without getting its > (not-yet existing) parent is a completely different thing.
Yes to all that, but why shouldn't Subversion at least point out that "Cannot commit bar/foo because it is a child of the deleted directory bar; you must commit bar instead"? The structure of the local change is clearly incompatible with what the user attempts to commit in this case.
