On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 05:24 PM, Philip Martin wrote:
> Ronald Simmons <Van_Simmons@thesimmonses.net> writes:
>
>> IMHO, 'svn cp URL URL' should either do a replace for both dirs and
>> files if the target exists, or it should fail for both, with my
>> preference for the replace (after all I'll just do the 'svn rm' first
>> if it doesn't behave that way). I suspect that failing for both is
>> going to be the preference of other people here, though, since
>> otherwise the URL->URL semantics might become inconsistent with the
>> WC->WC semantics.
>
> Yup :) I don't think replace should be the default, if I mistype the
> second URL I don't want to accidentally delete some existing URL. If
> replacing is allowed it should only be enabled with a --force flag
>
As soon as I hit send on that previous message, I thought: "you know, a
--force flag would actually be what you want." :^)
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Received on Wed Jun 12 23:29:42 2002