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Re: Is this supposed to work?

From: B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz_at_red-bean.com>
Date: 2002-06-21 04:39:54 CEST

> On 20/6/02 9:44 PM, "B. W. Fitzpatrick" <fitz@red-bean.com> wrote:
>
> >> Hi,
> >> Is this supposed to work, or is it one of those "we don't handle this"
> >> cases:
> >>
> >> svn mv b c; svn mv a b
> >
> > While the error is caused by something different, I suspect that this
> > falls under the umbrella of the following email that Ben
> > Collins-Sussman sent to the list yesterday (included below for
> > convenience).
> >
> > Ben, please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Heh. It was because of that email that I came across this case, but I think
> they're different.
>
> Ben was saying that you can't
>
> svn mv a b; svn mv b c
>
> (and I in another email I just sent I said I think this should be allowed)
>
> His example is taking one file and renaming it twice.
>
> My example is different. I start with two files, move one out of the way,
> and then move another into the, now "free", spot. The problem is that the
> base texts conflict.

I understand that the example is different. What I mean is that the
premise is the same. The second mv command should have failed. It is
my understanding that you actually can do a

$ svn mv b c

then

$ svn mv b a

... just not in the same changeset.

-Fitz

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