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Re: 'svn switch --relocate' behavior change -- intentional?

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-08-23 22:01:26 CEST

"Peter N. Lundblad" <peter@famlundblad.se> writes:
> This was part of my addition of repos-root to the entries files. I wanted
> to let people not shoot themselves in their foot by using --relocate to
> switch the path inside the repository. Karl also reacted to this change
> some time ago, so I guess I'll have to do something about it. (I didn't
> really understand this was a behavioural change, since I didn't think
> there was any point in specifying anything beyond the repository root in
> this case, but if people are accustomed to doing so, we should accept it.)
>
> So, I thin k the check should be changed so that it only checks that the
> prefix of the arguments that change are part of the repository root, but
> accept a path thereafter if it is identical in both strings. As I
> discussed with Karl on IRC, this shouldn't just silently error, but
> instead violently generate an error instead. Agreed?

+1

I'm not opposed to the failure, just to the silence.

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