On 02/22/2012 02:20 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
2012/2/23 Evan Wee<[email protected]>:
Strangely, other commands with * used will work, such as svn delete, svn
add, etc. Even svn commit * will work somewhat as it commits the modified
and added files, but not the deleted ones.
I had a discussion with others and their explanation is that the character *
refers to valid targets and thus deleted items are not targettable, hence
their being missed in the commit. Should this be a valid exception case for
svn commit so as to make it consistent with other svn commands?
The '*' filename pattern on Unixes is processed by the Shell before
the command is passed to Subversion. It matches only existing files.
Subversion cannot do anything with it.
Officially - see
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html
Shell Command Language
-> 2.6.6 Pathname Expansion
And even if this could be changed, you should just get in the practice
of using . as a target instead, as if you do a merge and then 'svn
commit *', you won't pick up the property change on the current working
directory. In other words, you would have committed everything but the
metadata to record the merge.
Blair
