On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:09:44AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> 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 I was just reading the incredibly old and out-of-date /IDEAS file, and I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?"...)
You would make Pavel happy if the first question would be
"Add/remove/skip this file?" :)
--
-- Josef Wolf -- jw@raven.inka.de --
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