FileTree nukes SVN metadata

[dalehenrich]

In SVN 1.6, the SVN meta data is stored in each directory and FileTree wipes out the whole directory structure when it writes out a package which plays havoc with SVN .. see http://forum.world.st/FileTree-queries-tp4655472p4656119.html..

[ottobehrens]

The reason why we did this was to cater for deletions / renaming / moving of classes. I suppose we could only wipe .st files. We may end up with empty directories if a class was moved or deleted. But then the .svn files will still be there. It may be ok to leave the empty directories? I think git doesn't even care about writing empty directories. If someone uses svn, they can then write a little cleanup script for those. Renaming a package may cause a bit more trouble.

[dalehenrich]

Here's Chris' description of his patch:

I think all I did was to move the contents of recursiveDelete into 
MCFileTreeFileDirectoryUtils class>>deleteAll: and guard clause on 
directory names from an ignore list. This isn't really very satisfactory 
because 2.0 uses FileSystem and other Smalltalk dialects would 
presumably require the same treatment as well.

[dalehenrich]

@ottobehrens, yeah I thought nuking the directory was a clean trick .. other Cypress variants include additional structure in their packages, so building the structure from scratch is the preferred solution ...

But... if SVN is not supported well, there should be a way to accomodate it ...

[dalehenrich]

hmmm, a .filetreepreserve file? Opposite of .filetreeignore:)