Re: rapidsvn feedback

Josef Wolf wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 05:29:21PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
>
>
>>>What happens when you give "svn switch" a wrong URL (one directory too
>>>deep or some such?)
>>>
>>>
>>Then your working copy is still switched to the URL.
>>That is: every single item in your working copy is deleted, and a
>>whole bunch of unrelated things are added. :-)
>>
>>
>
>That is why I wrote:
>
>| Given the example in section 2.4.2 of the handbook,
>| something like "svn switch mooIRC-beta subsystem/renderer"
>| would make more sense to me. "http://foo.com/repos/mooIRC" can be
>| determined from mooIRC/subsystem/renderer/.svn/entries and
>| "subsystem/renderer" is already given on the command line.
>

You're assuming a particular branch layout again. You can't do that.

FWIW, I _would_ support having a shortcut notation so that one didn't
have to type the root UTL of the repository all the time; e.g., so that
you could type

    svn switch %%/branches/issue-531-dev .

and the client would grok from context that %% is
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn. That shouldn't be too hard to do today,
and it would be positively trivial once we record the root URL
separately in the WC. This would save a lot of typing, and most
importantly, typos.

Josef, would that be a good compromise?

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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