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Re: "move" shouldn't take a revision argument

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-10-12 02:35:10 CEST

Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> writes:
> Peter Hercek pointed out recently that "svn move" can take a
> revision argument. I see also that svn_client_move() does. That
> argument is meaningless. A WC move always acts on the working
> revision, and a repository move on the repository head revision.
> So...
>
> "svn move" should stop accepting "-r".
>
> "svn_client_move" should be deprecated and superceded by
> "svn_client_move2" which will be the same but without the revision
> parameter. The doc string of "svn_client_move" says:
>
> * If @a src_path is a repository URL:
> [...]
> * - @a src_revision is used to choose the revision from which to copy
> * the @a src_path.
> [...]
> * If @a src_path is a working copy path
> [...]
> * - @a src_revision, and @a ctx->log_msg_func/@a ctx->log_msg_baton are
> * ignored.
>
> but that is wrong and should be changed to match the implementation,
> which is (for any type of src_path):
>
> * @a src_revision has no useful effect but must be of kind
> * @c svn_opt_revision_unspecified or @c svn_opt_revision_head,
> * otherwise error @c SVN_ERR_UNSUPPORTED_FEATURE is returned.
>
> Does this all sound right?

Yep, sounds sane to me.

(What does the revision param do in the code right now, though? Have
you traced it through?)

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