> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Thorsten Schöning [mailto:tschoen...@am-soft.de] > > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 12:21 PM > > To: users@subversion.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Switching > > > > How would you like Subversion to work in your case? From my > > understanding it breaks down to something generated some files for > > some reason in one of your branches and now you want to switch form > > that branch to another which does not contain the base directory of > > the generated files. What should subversion do with your generated > > files it doesn't know anything about? > > > > I don't see how this problem can be solved by any tool. > > > > Part of his frustration is that the files in question are listed in the > global- > ignores. So... maybe a feature request to have a 'svn switch' option to take > global-ignores into consideration when deciding whether to keep or delete > local files? >
I thought svn's policy was "do no harm"... so un-versioned files are never deleted by default. BOb
