Re: [TSVN] Re: Re: Rename in repository problem

Simon Large wrote:

[snip]
> I agree, it is not a good thing to do. So should it be allowed at all for
> single files?

Sometimes it's needed. If you just want to take a look at an old file
and update to HEAD right afterwards...

> I can see the logic of this, but the behaviour is slightly inconconsistent.
> I can diff the file through the namechange with no problem, so it is
> intuitive (but wrong) to assume that an update-to-rev will replace the
> current rev with the old one.

If you think about what a revision really is, then it's all perfectly
clear: a revision is _not_ tied to a file, it's tied to _all_ files in
the repository. So an update-to-rev will replace the current rev with an
older one, but if you do that update only on one file, then you don't
have the whole revision but only a part of it.

> So what _would_ you use update-to-rev for?

I haven't found a real use case yet. But people wanted to have this, so
it's in TSVN...

Stefan

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Received on Tue Aug 31 16:50:32 2004