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Re: Outdated check in import?

From: Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:00:32 +0300

Hyrum K Wright wrote on Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 16:14:54 -0500:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:47 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> > On 04/19/2012 01:37 PM, Julian Foad wrote:
> >> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> >>
> >>> I guess I don't see this as "whack-a-mole with 'svn
> >>> import'".  'svn import' is treated uniquely because it is
> >>> genuinely unique -- no other Subversion operation tries to
> >>> directly replicate unversioned data in the repository without
> >>> first "staging it" in the working copy state.  The only other
> >>> thing
> >>> that comes close is 'svn mkdir URL' (which, by the way, doesn't
> >>> appear to be
> >>> disallowing the creation of .svn/ directories ... oops!).
> >>
> >> And
> >>   svn copy --parents ... $URL/foo/.svn/bar
> >>   svn move --parents ... $URL/foo/.svn/bar
> >>
> >> All four of these commands are "genuinely unique" in this common way :-P
> >
> > Yeah, copy and move occurred to me in the shower this morning.  So much for
> > uniqueness.  :-(
>
> Not to mention the fact that the check as currently constructed is
> platform-dependent.
>
> If you do an import with the ASP_DOT_NET_HACK (or whatever it's
> called) enabled, the import will error on _svn, *not* .svn, whereas
> the standard procedure would like _svn slip right by. This is all
> crazy since this is strictly a repository operation, and shouldn't be
> dependent upon client-side specifics. Good luck getting that all to
> behave as advertised in a mixed-platform environment.

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Received on 2012-04-22 00:01:11 CEST

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