Re: "svn copy -rHEAD" copies the wrong version.

kfogel@collab.net writes:

> Nice find! Have no idea what causes this, but agree it is an
> egregious bug...
>
> Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> writes:
> > svn cp -rHEAD WC-FILE NEW-WC-FILE
> >
> > does not contact the repository to determine "-rHEAD". Instead it copies the version that currently exists in the WC. The following script demonstrates it.

I think this is how we always meant/designed 'svn cp WC WC' to behave:
it copies a chunk of WC to somewhere else in the WC, and schedules it
all for addition with history. IIRC, 'svn cp WC WC' is not supposed
to take a --revision argument at *all*.

To accomplish what you want above, we could simply tell people to use
'svn cp -rX URL WC', and then make 'svn cp WC WC' not accept
--revision. I think that's a perfectly fine resolution.

Or, if you want to take a harder road, 'svn cp -rX WC WC' could simply be
converted (quietly, under the hood) to 'svn cp -rX URL WC'.

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Received on Tue Sep 30 21:48:35 2003