Re: Tags and branches are NOT the same

On 3/20/06, Vincent Starre <vstarre@comcast.net> wrote:

> Seem to have missed the point:
> 1) "switch" doesnt operate on single files. Adding this as a feature
> would be one way to help this out, but this would require implementation
> of "views", which I gather arent even on the radar. (in 1.2, attempting
> to switch a single file silently does nothing)

Umm, that's wrong. Switch works just fine on single files.

$ svn switch http://url/of/file localfile
U localfile
Updated to revision 10.

> 2) In 1.2, attempting to switch a single file using the syntax described
> above (replacing only "merge" with "switch", not changing the URLs to
> point to the individual file) is a great way to place your wc into an
> irreperable state. Try it, it's fun.

If you have a recipie to get a WC into an irreparable state, I'd love to see it.

-garrett

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Received on Mon Mar 20 20:00:54 2006