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Re: suggestions for neater operation ...

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_lyra.org>
Date: 2002-08-05 10:45:42 CEST

On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 11:50:53PM -0400, William Uther wrote:
> On 4/8/02 9:36 PM, "solo turn" <soloturn99@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > 1. svn mkdir bla/bla
> > should create both directories.
>
> okie
>
> > 2. svn mv myentry bla/myentry
> > same reason as in 1
>
> Don't like this one. In the above case I think it is more likely that the
> user wanted to create both dirs. In this case I think it more likely that
> the user mistyped the directory name.

Neither of these are very acceptable. If the user mistypes "bla", then
you've got some real problems. While we can generally recover from any kind
of typo on the user's part, we really need to warn them about the problem up
front.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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