[SVN-4441] Support --parents on commit

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: cmdline client
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 30/Oct/13 21:19
• Updated: 01/Nov/13 12:33

Description

Commit on a child of an added, uncommitted directory fails with the error:

svn: E200009: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: E200009: '/tmp/test/a' is not known to exist in the repository and is not
part of the commit, yet its child '/tmp/test/a/b' is part of the commit

This could be solved by enhancing commit to support --parents.

See this discussion in the mailing list:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2013-07/0309.shtml

The particular use case we are facing is in the context of hardware design where
a directory tree corresponding to a new hardware component is created and added,
but we only want to commit a sub-tree (representing one view of the new
component). Other views of the component may be committed later or may be
reverted without ever being committed.

The workaround in place is to commit the parent(s) with --depth=empty then
commit the children, but this is time-consuming and error-prone if the user
omits --depth=empty on the parent commit.

Original issue reported by ferguss