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Re: can't 'svn cp' *twice* - bug or prohibited?

From: Andreas J. Koenig <andreas.koenig_at_anima.de>
Date: 2002-12-09 23:02:38 CET

>>>>> On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 22:24:22 +0100, Alexis Huxley <ahuxley@gmx.net> said:

> Rather than 'cp' it, and lose the knowledge of where the cp-induced
> changes come from, I'd like to 'svn cp' it again.

> Unfortunately it doesn't work. It says:

> svn: Entry already exists
> svn: file `wc/file2' already exists.

The manpage says about copy:

    Unless destination is a directory, destination must not exist (In
    the spirit of unix cp, source will be placed inside of destination
    if destination is a directory).

-- 
andreas
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