sebb wrote on Wed, 22 Jul 2020 22:44 +0100: > The SVN put command can add a new file or update an existing one. > > As part of a batch update it may be necessary to ensure that a > particular file will be created and not updated - or vice versa. > That is currently not at all easy to do, which is a shame as svnmucc > is otherwise very useful for writing atomic updates that are not > possible with the svn client.
What can svnmucc(1) do that svn(1) can't? > Would there be any support for extending svnmucc to add these operations? > Either as options to put, or as separate commands. The standard solutions for your situation are: 1. - Get HEAD's value as an integer - Check file existence/inexistence in that revision - Run 'svnmucc -r' 2. svn co --depth=empty $URL wc svn up --set-depth=infinity wc/foo ⋮ # (as posted in https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/202007.mbox/%3C20200712142604.128f80eb%40tarpaulin.shahaf.local2%3E) In what ways do they fall short?
