Re: Little question about directory copies

>> My question is, what happens in the working directory when I run
>> the "svn branch" command?

> I think it should switch over too, unless you explicitly request
> that it not.

So, in Jim's conception of the world, a branch is exactly like a copy,
and is visible in the filesystem like a copy would be.

That world view suggests that the wc has to make a copy of the whole
directory. (With some conceivably funky admin files.) Which is
decidedly not a fast operation--slower than a CVS tag operation, even.

So I remain confused as to whether (a) I don't know something about
the wc view of branches, and how it meshes with the filesystem view of
branches, or (b) nobody has really thought about this yet.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:23 2006