<facepalm>
Felix, you win the prize. I was looking for something to specifically match
one of the deleted folder names. There is a svn:ignore value of "*" in the
parent folder. Why someone thought this was a good idea, I have no clue.
Thanks for the help!
-Dave P.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Dave Purrington
<dave.purring...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Clever clever. I'm still trying to wrap my head around that idea. I'll look
> again at the patterns.
>
> The fact that no one has heard of this problem makes me think I've missed a
> source of ignore patterns somewhere. Time to quadruple check. I also see
> from another reply that the registry is a source of ignore patterns, so I'm
> going to look there as well.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Felix Gilcher <
> felix.gilc...@bitextender.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:02 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > On Feb 2, 2010, at 16:34, Dave Purrington wrote:
>> >
>> >> The scenario goes like this:
>> >> • Homer svn deletes a folder and commits to the repository.
>> >> • Marge svn updates, and svn reports the folder Homer deleted ("D
>> <some folder>")
>> >> • Marge runs svn st, some folder is not reported as unversioned.
>> >> However, the folder is still on disk (unversioned, i.e. no .svn folder)
>> and is now ignored (revealed by "svn st --no-ignore"). What's odd is that I
>> can't even tell how it's being ignored. Marge doesn't have a matching
>> pattern in her global ignores, and svn propget svn:ignore on the parent
>> folder reveals nothing useful. All clients using 1.6.6 on Windows.
>> >>
>> >> What's also strange is that there are plenty of cases where files or
>> folders are deleted and post update they show up as unversioned items. Why
>> the difference?
>> >
>> > I've never heard of that happening. Do you have a reproduction recipe
>> that can recreate this problem?
>>
>> Maybe it was ignored after it had been added to the repository (matched by
>> some sort of wildcard pattern or the like). It would show up during regular
>> commits since it's in the repo and items that are versioned cannot be
>> ignored. After deleting however, it would no longer be versioned and thus
>> matched by the ignore. So it would be interesting by which ignore rule it's
>> matched and whether that rule was added after the folder.
>>
>> Another possibility would be that someone added the folder even though it
>> was ignored from the beginning.
>>
>> felix
>>
>> --
>> Felix Gilcher
>>
>> Bitextender GmbH
>> Paul-Heyse-Str. 6
>> D-80336 München
>>
>>
>>
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