Re: renaming an added (but not committed) file

On Aug 8, 2005, at 8:41 AM, A.T.Hofkamp wrote:

>
> PS in that respect, I don't understand why 'svn cp' would not be
> possible here. Is there some reason why svn cannot create a copy of
> x in the working copy (ie is there something fundamental against
> performing 'cp x y' in unix, then 'svn add y'?)
>

libsvn_wc cannot 'svn cp' something which is already copied. See the
end of this file for commentary:

   http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/subversion/libsvn_wc/copy.c

I'm not sure why we can't 'svn cp' something that is merely 'svn
add'd though.

Regardless, this sort of stuff may be cleared up when we implement
True Renames.

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Received on Mon Aug 8 16:18:31 2005