Re: Understanding clones and the file system

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> If the repository exists at http://foo.com/svn/repo, and I do a
>
> $ svn checkout http://foo.com/svn/repo -d wc
>
> I would get a new working copy called 'wc':
>
> wc/trunk
> wc/trunk/paint
> ...
>
> If I were to checkout like this:
>
> $ svn checkout http://foo.com/svn/repo/trunk/paint -d wc
>
> My working copy would be
>
> wc/Makefile
> wc/canvas.c
> ...
>
> If I were to leave off the '-d' argument to checkout:
>
> $ svn checkout http://foo.com/svn/repo/trunk/paint
>
> paint/Makefile
> paint/canvas.c
> ...

I think Peter's question is, what happens when you do this:

   $ svn checkout http://foo.com/svn/repo

Do we get a working copy named "repo"? Named ""? :-)? Do we get an
error complaining that a wc name is required?

I dunno. Try it and see. :-)

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:35 2006