Re: svn cp question

andreas.koenig@anima.de (Andreas J. Koenig) wrote:
> I would believe that
>
> svn copy trunk tags/FOO
> svn -m '' commit
> rm -rf tags/FOO
>
> is equivalent to
>
> svn copy http://.../trunk http://.../tags/FOO

The URL form of svn copy requires a log message as well.

> but I'm not sure about this and find no answer in manpage or book.
>
> Are they equivalent?

Yes (assuming the dots represent the same path in your svn copy
command-line).

The URL form works without a working copy.
It's usually preferable not to checkout a working copy that contains
the trunk/ and tags/ directories, if you want to spare disk space
or to switch your entire working copy.

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Received on Thu Nov 21 16:44:56 2002