how to switch without losing files

2013-09-04 Thread Marshall Schor
messages like: D path-to-a and when I look, the switch has deleted the a directory in my working copy. Is there a way to have the switch keep from deleting "a"? So when I switch back, later, to the 1st branch where a exists, it can commit just the changes in that tree? -Marshall Schor

Re: preventing accidental commit

2013-06-06 Thread Marshall Schor
On 6/6/2013 3:12 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 02:46:16PM -0400, Marshall Schor wrote: >> a) checkout the part of the update site from the ...dist/release... spot; >> b) update that, changing some files, adding others >> c) put it somewhere for

preventing accidental commit

2013-06-06 Thread Marshall Schor
st approach? One person suggested I use an ant task run as part of the Maven build to rename the checked-out ".svn" files to ".hidesvn" - then the commit would not work (of course), until another action was taken to rename these back to .svn. Would that work? Is there a better