Re: Takeover Take 2 Was: Re: the 'takeover' feature

Mark Phippard wrote:
> Checkout currently does #1, this would change it to #3. Part of doing #3
> means sliding the .svn metdata under the existing file so that you can
> then use normal svn commands, such as commit or revert to deal with the
> local file.

I just want to make sure that everyone understands that I *love* the
idea for the takeover feature. I am also guilty of tarring up a
directory tree to copy some files to another machine and then later
regretting that and adding the files to a repository and having to deal
with the localized drift manually.

The only thing I am -0 on this feature is making it the default
behavior. I believe it is much more appropriate to loudly inform the
user that svn is lightly stepping around existing files, rather than
performing a /tabula rasa/ checkout. Since the project doesn't like CLI
prompts:

   Existing files found; continue checkout? [Y/N]

then the only way to mandate an alert to the user is to error out the
first time:

   Existing files found; did you mean 'checkout --takeover'?

(with whatever flag for checkout is chosen).

John

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