On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Travis Goff <constantine_272_at_yahoo.com>wrote:
> Greetings you users, you,
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> I'm not sure if this is a bug or just poorly defined functionality. I'm
> also using svn 1.4.3 and not sure about the most current operation. After
> testing hook scripts to protect my tags directory, this appears to be an
> ambiguous svn cp result.
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> This creates my simple tag:
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> $ svn cp http:…/something/trunk/ http:…/something/tags/1.0.0
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> Which creates the directory structure: /something/tags/1.0.0/<stuff from
> trunk>.
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> Scenario of me being stupid and re-tagging by accident.
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> $ svn cp http:…/something/trunk/ http:…/something/tags/1.0.0
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> This created the directory structure:
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> /something/
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> tags/
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> 1.0.0/
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> <stuff from trunk>
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> trunk/<stuff from trunk>
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> Scenario of me being curious and re-re-tagging.
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> $ svn cp http:…/something/trunk/ http:…/something/tags/1.0.0
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> This outputs the error svn: "Path 'tags/1.0.0/trunk' already exists"
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> IMHO, because I did not put a / at the end of the directory 1.0.0, the
> second svn cp should throw an error "Path 'tags/1.0.0' already exists". However,
> if the / is added to the end of 1.0.0, then svn cp should create the
> tags/1.0.0/trunk directory as it did. I am concerned about the fact that
> svn cp does either one of two operations from the same command and that
> there's no way to differentiate between the two operations.
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> Thanks,
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> -Travis
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Svn's copy/move behaviour is consistent with the copy/move (cp/mv) commands
in unix. If the second argument (with or without the "/" character) is a
directory, then the file/dir is copied inside that directory.
Thanks,
-Hari
Received on 2008-10-14 21:25:04 CEST