Re: unexpected behaviour (bug?) when moving/copying

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:

> On Dec 18, 2004, at 8:48 AM, SteveKing wrote:
>>
>> if you move the folder testwc\currentdir\dir1 into the folder
>> testwc\targetdir (where another 'dir1' is located), then the
>> explorer first asks you if you want to overwrite 'dir1', and if you
>> click yes, then the folder is overwritten, but the files in it are
>> still there. So you end up with
>> testwc\targetdir\dir1
>> testwc\targetdir\dir1\file1
>> testwc\targetdir\dir1\fileA
>>
> Oops, sorry, I read too quickly. So TSVN could prompt the user if
> they want the directories to be 'merged' together the way explorer
> normally does. If so, then TSVN can 'svn copy' each dir1\* object
> into targetdir\, right?

That's a race, it cannot be done reliably using libsvn_client.

-- 
Philip Martin
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