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Re: Suggestion: Branch/tag-dialog change

From: Russell Hind <rh_gmane_at_mac.com>
Date: 2006-06-21 16:25:28 CEST

jason@subversus.org wrote:
>
> That still doesn't make any sense. When using either the command line or
> TSVN you have to specify target and destination. But when you don't specify
> a revision on the command line it assumes to branch (copy) from the HEAD
> revision. You are NOT forced to specify a revision on the command line, and
> if you don't, you are defaulted to HEAD. Doing something different goes
> against SVN convention. And IMHO that is bad, especially when an individual
> uses both command line and TSVN because you've effectively broken
> consistency.

My mistake, I haven't done one with the cl for a while, and thought you
had to enter the source.

But I still think auto-branching from HEAD is bad because of the race
condition mentioned previously.

Cheers

Russell

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