Re: [PATCH] make svnmucc consistently overwrite copy targets

Philip Martin wrote:
> "Kevin Radke" <kmradke_at_gmail.com> writes:
>
>> svnmucc would allow an user to use "CP REV SRC DST" when both SRC and
>> DST URLs were directories. It would (silently) "replace" DST with
>> SRC. When used with specific file names it would return an error that
>> "DST already exists".
>
> When I try the current trunk build the copy fails for both files and
> directories. The svnmucc test suite is rather small and doesn't test
> this behaviour so it may have been different in the past, but I'd be
> surprised if it has changed.

Kevin, were you testing over DAV?
Philip, were you *not* testing over DAV?

I recall an oddity with mod_dav in that an overwriting add gets transformed
under-the-hood into a delete and then an add, whereas a similar action
against svnserve or via ra_local would result in an "already exists" error.

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