Re: svn cp URL URL behavior

Ronald Simmons <Van_Simmons@thesimmonses.net> writes:

> On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 12:23 AM, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> >
> > Or should we just say, "hey, svn cp URL URL won't overwrite anything,
> > period." I mean, I guess that *would* be consistent with our
> > out-of-date commit philosophy.
>
> I personally would prefer to see a --force flag on svn cp URL URL in
> the directory case rather than see it completely outlawed..

Well, like I said, that would mean that we'd need to write special
code in both of our RA layers to circumvent commit-time
out-of-dateness checks.

> And of course I'd like to be sure that dump/load allows it for
> those repositories where it has already happened. :^)

That's guaranteed; dumping and loading interacts directly with
libsvn_fs, and libsvn_fs always allows copies to overwrite
destinations.

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Received on Wed Jun 26 14:41:01 2002