Re: Moving a moved file

Folker Schamel wrote:

> Branko Čibej wrote:
>
>> C is a direct descendant of D, which is a direct descendant of A. B was
>> never in the repository
>
>
> BTW, this would be a drastic philosophy change for Subversion:
> For the first time, a file at a particular revision
> can be a descendant of another file of the SAME revision
> instead of the PREVIOUS revision.

It's not so drastic a change at all; it just can't be done with the
current WC library.

> I am absolutely sure that this partially-record-the-local-history
> approach would open the door to the hell of complexity
> both for users to understand and for the implementation,
> for the reasons explained in my previous emails.

You're forgetting that copy == branch, therefore keeping history correct
is important.

(Actually, someday I hope to convince people that there's a semantic
difference between copies and branches; but that's beside the point
right now).

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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