Re: Subversion != your filesystem (was mv != (cp && rm))

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 03:55:05AM +0100, Branko Čibej wrote:
> Once we implement "svn ln" (which means a third kind of node, a
> "reference", will appear in the filesystem), we'll have to be careful to
> preserve the semantics of reference nodes within a copy. But that's
> trivial -- reference nodes will behave exactly like C pointers: a copy
> creates a new node, but its value (the node it refers to) remains the same.

What will happen if I link A to B and then
   1. cp B C && rm B
   2. mv B C

You can argue that in both cases A will link to C but, then what happens
when
   cp B C && change C && cp B D && change D && rm B && commit
where does A point to now?

florin

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