On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:28:59PM +0000, Philip Martin wrote: > Suppose I have a checkout containing a versioned directory A that > contains a child A/f. If I delete A the status shows: > > $ svn st > D A > D A/f > > If I now copy some other directory to replace A and the copied directory > also has a child f, then status shows: > > $ svn st > R + A > > That looks correct to me, the replacement hides the deleted child. If > the copied directory also contains a child g and I delete it within the > copy, then status shows > > $ svn st > R + A > D A/g > > which also looks correct. > > However if the copied directory does not contain a child f then the > status of the deleted A/f shows through after the replacement: > > $ svn st > R + A > D A/f > > and if I delete the copied child g then status shows: > > $ svn st > R + A > D A/f > D A/g > > I think both of those are wrong, the deleted A/f should be hidden by the > replacement. The delete of A/f is fundamentally different to the delete > of A/g. On commit the client will delete A, copy the replacement and > delete A/g; it won't delete A/f. > > Anybody want to agree or disagree?
I agree. The deletion of A/f should now show through.

