Re: svn switch to move between servers

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> A switch is a more generalized version of an update.
>
> All updates compare two URLs@revs, and apply changes to your working
> copy.
>
> If one of the URLs no longer exists, then this process won't work.

Um. Theoretically - you still have to data of the first URL? Let's
consider the normal update. It want's to know what changed between the
working copy base version and the revision it's updating to. Then it
gets a diff of these, and applies it to the working copy, right?

Now, theoretically, this could happen by having the server send us the
few full text-bases, comparing between the old text-bases and the new
text-bases ourself - and then applying that to our working copy.

I might still be talking rubbish here though. I'm not saying that this
would be the way update or switch should behave - I'm just saying that
it should be possible to do this, just with the information we already
have.

-- Naked

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Received on Wed Sep 18 23:35:09 2002