This problem is in every Apache project... On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > > : I've run into this too. I don't think this needs to be documented, I > : think it needs to be *fixed* -- that is, the relevant ant tasks need to > : not assume these directories exist and create them if not. > > There is a reason these empty directories are commited and not created on > the fly by ant ... mainly because even if people don't ever use ant we > want "java -jar start.jar" to work. > > People have argued that the build scripts should recreate them if the user > forcably removes them (or if in this case: git is aparently not smart > enough to preserve them) but that leads to the possibility of a person > with an svn checkout manually deleting a directory, then the build file > recreating it for them, and then SVN freaking out because the directoyr > exists but doesn't have it's working copy info (ie: .svn subdir) > > "same as it ever was, same as it ever was" ... > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-765?focusedCommentId=12631870&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#action_12631870 > > > > -Hoss > >
-- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com
