Re: "svn sync"

Peter Davis <peter@pdavis.cx> writes:

> I was just reading the incredibly old and out-of-date /IDEAS file, and I
> noticed a proposal for 'svn sync'. Did anything come of that? I think it
> would be just as useful as import -- perhaps more useful.

Heh, you never actually said what the command is supposed to do, but I
looked it up in the IDEAs file.

Basically, the command just runs 'svn status' under the hood. Every
unrecognized file or directory (those normally printed with a '?')
gets scheduled for addition. Every missing file or directory
(normally printed with a '!') gets scheduled for deletion.

I think we've talked about this idea before -- but under different
names. 'svn sync' sounds a bit too 2-way-ish... it's just an
auto-scheduling tool. I think we've talked about calling such a
command 'svn guess' or something -- and possibly designing it to have
an interactive mode. ("Add this file? Delete this file?"...)

It would take about 20 minutes to write. Is there a demand for it?

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Received on Fri Oct 4 15:11:51 2002