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Re: User interface proposal

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_newton.collab.net>
Date: 2000-09-28 17:01:43 CEST

Ed Korthof <edk@collab.net> writes:

> I'm not so sure that 'accidental' deletions are infrequent -- I've moved
> files around when doing tests. Sometimes this is with the expectation
> that I'll later run cvs update to revert; but sometimes it's been other
> kinds of testing, where I wanted the original file out of the way for a
> little while.

Hmmm, actually, (Karl), this is the best argument against automatic
deletion-detection I've yet heard.

If somebody temporarily moves a file "out of the way", either
accidentally or intentionally, we *don't* want `svn commit' to infer
that the file has been deleted!
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