The Eclipse environment, probably most IDE's, create an environment where
projects are checked out into a common folder where the parent folder is not a
WC. So even though all of these projects are from the same repository and might
even have a common parent, they are essentially a series of disconnected
"island" working copies. The problem with this is that you can then not commit
changes in multiple projects as a single atomic commit operation.
Expected behavior:
If I commit files, listing their paths, and they all live in the same
repository, I would expect the commit to succeed and do it one transaction.
Actual behavior:
Subversion errors out if you try to do this. As a workaround, Subclipse has to
break this up into multiple commits. Users feel like they are losing a key
Subversion feature.
Suggested change:
The JavaSVN/SVNKit library added support for this. In their case, we just have
to give them all the paths, and they break it up into one commit per repository.
I would be happy doing this break up in Subclipse, if I could just get the
single commit to work when they are all in the same repository.
Bug
Major
SVN-2381 Cannot commit multiple WC paths which lack a common parent directory
