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Re: Not really a bug, but an interesting warning

From: Jean-Marc van Leerdam <j.m.van.leerdam_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 10:14:35 +0200

Hi,

2009/5/8 Lübbe Onken <luebbe.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com>:
> Hi Arnold, you wrote:
>
>> I got this while trying to relocate my working copy after changing machines and an unavoidable drive letter reassignement.
>
> Nothing interesting about this I'd say.
>
> That's what warnings are for. They warn you before you shoot yourself in
> the foot. If you ignore them for a good reason, nothing bad happens.
>
>> Of couse ignoring it caused no problems.
>
> Because you did something wrong, but nothing harmful.
>
> There is no need to 'svn relocate' your working copy, if the location of
> the working copy changes. You have to run 'svn relocate' when the
> repository location (URL) changes.
>

No, he did need to relocate, because the location of the repository
changed (from one file: location to another).

Somehow (the svn library or TSVN) fails to detect that this type of
relocation really is changing the path to the server and not the path
inside the working copy.

-- 
Regards,
Jean-Marc
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