On 4/14/06, Paul Burba <paulb@softlanding.com> wrote:
> Paul Burba <paulb@softlanding.com> wrote on 04/11/2006 04:16:02 PM:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Just wondering what ever became of takeover...does it still have any
> life?
> > As Mark has mentioned a few times in the thread, this would be very
> > helpful re Subclipse.
> >
> > I'm glad to attempt any grunt work required to get Jonathan's old 1.2
> > patch caught up to trunk if that's all that's holding this up.
> >
> > Please let me know, thanks,
> >
> > Paul B.
> >
> > kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net wrote on 09/16/2005 06:20:36 PM:
> >
> > > Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > > > Well, I'm not part of this consensus.
> > > >
> > > > I think checkout should tolerate existing directories by default. No
> > > > need for a flag for that. That should alleviate that Eclipse use
> > case.
> > >
> > > Yes -- in fact, I thought this was the conclusion we came to earlier
> > > (though the thread has been long, and I don't blame anyone for
> > > forgetting a later conclusion and backtracking to an earlier one).
> > >
> > > +1 on checkout just Doing The Right Thing when invoked over an
> > > existing local tree, by default. No need for a new switch here.
> > >
> > > -Karl
>
> I didn't hear from anyone so I'd like to push this forward.
>
> Pouring over the takeover threads there seems to be a consensus that
> checkout is the place for this functionality and that further
> optimizations/improvements can wait. There is less agreement on the
> question of whether co needs a new option --takeover, should use --force,
> or should just behave this way by default (my vote if for the last
> option). I'm going to start work shortly on a patch to trunk based on
> Jonathan's 1.2.0 patch. If anyone out there has strong objections or
> something to add please let me know.
>
Good idea, please do it!
--
Ivan Zhakov
Received on Fri Apr 14 19:52:34 2006