Re: multiple "svn import" behavior

"Guillaume Boissiere" <boissier@media.mit.edu> writes:

> > Imports don't perform any merges. It's just a fast way of adding files.
>
> Uhmm, I think it would be a worthy feature to add to Subversion. It is not
> really a merge, it is "replace whatever was in this directory of the
> repository by what is in the local directory I am importing".
> It seems to me like it would be a nice new behavior for import instead of
> erroring out.
> Comments?

Well, it's not a feature that particularly excites me. :-)

If you choose to write the feature, it shouldn't be part of 'svn
import'. We're trying to resemble CVS behavior to some degree.
Perhaps I would call it something like 'svn overwrite'.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:56 2006