dir under bzr and svn simultaneously

Philippe Lhoste PhiLho at GMX.net
Tue Oct 12 10:20:51 BST 2010


On 12/10/2010 10:25, Michael Gliwinski wrote:
> Is there a way to store a directory under Bazaar's control and Subversion
> *independently*?  Attempting any operations in subversion checkout ends up
> with Bazaar trying to work with Subversion checkout.

Perhaps stupid suggestion: remove the SVN plugin, I suppose the metadata 
will be ignored them.

> I know this is probably not very typical but one of our devs is working on a
> project where he gets a zipped tree from upstream (some propriety thing) and
> he tweaks it and extends it.  The tree from upstream is polluted with .svn
> directories all over the place but we don't have access to the upstream svn
> server.

Yes, this pollution is one of the main reasons why I despise SVN... 
Awful when you grep, for example.

> We can delete the .svn subdirs but I was just wondering if there's a way to
> say to ignore svn checkout metadata.

Deleting the subdirs is still the best option... :-)

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