Re: Moving and copying multiple targets

On 11/14/05, Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_wright@byu.edu> wrote:
> To help me understand better, why would it be better for only a single
> call to the client library from the client application for a move or
> copy command, instead of looping like the add command? In my
> understanding, we don't have to have atomicity because we aren't doing
> something like a commit, which does send all of its arguments to the
> client library at once. I don't have a position on which is better or
> not, just wondering why.

If the sources and dest are URL's, then it makes sense to want the
multiple moves to appear as a single transaction. By contrast, 'add'
never operates on the repository; it only makes sense for a WC.

(Caveat lector: the client library is terra incognita to me, if you
catch my lingua franca. So take this with a grain of tortellini.)

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Received on Tue Nov 15 10:19:23 2005