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Re: new user question about import/checkout/trunk

From: Philip Martin <philip_at_codematters.co.uk>
Date: 2003-08-04 23:58:26 CEST

Jack Repenning <jrepenning@collab.net> writes:

>>"Parent-into-child" copies should work provided they are not WC-to-WC.
>
> Huh. With what semantics? I guess "... as of the revision in effect
> at the moment you initiate the copy"--i.e., the copy does not contain
> itself (recursing forever....)

Yes, it's the versioning that makes it possible to do a
parent-into-child copy. Once I realised that the Subversion
filesystem supported this sort of copy there seemed little reason for
the client layer to disallow it.

-- 
Philip Martin
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