On Aug 3, 2011, at 03:04, Dominik Psenner wrote: >> I think "svn commit foo" would work fine, provided you do not "rmdir foo" >> first; that was your error. >> >> I also have a feeling Subversion 1.7's new working copy arrangement will >> fix or at least change this behavior. > > So there's still a light at the far end of the tunnel! :o) From what I've > read just now 1.7.X's WC arrangement will become alike hg's way. I > understand well that the current svn infrastructure is not suited for this > usecase. > > Would patching svn 1.6.X to fix the behaviour be feasible?
I doubt it. Or rather, the behavior is not broken. The user is broken. As I said: "svn commit foo" should have worked fine if you had not run "rmdir foo" beforehand. Don't run "rmdir foo". Just run "svn rm foo" followed by "svn commit foo" and everything should work.
