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Re: .svn directories

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: 2003-08-25 18:20:42 CEST

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 11:57, Kumaran Santhanam wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > I don't think it's a very compelling argument, though. Won't these same
> > people expect to be able to copy-paste from working directories and
> > continue doing work? That only works if we have embedded .svn
> > directories.

> There are commercial solutions that do not have embedded
> administrative directories. They simply provide a clean command
> with which to copy/move workspace directories.

Let's keep the arguments straight here:

        Argument 1 (yours): recursive commands bump into .svn
        directories, which is sometimes undesirable.
        
        Argument 2 (Jesper's): naive users copy parts of working
        directories and don't understand they're copying metadata as
        well.

This particular thread is talking about argument 2. The users of
argument 2 are naive. They don't know they should use a special command
to copy stuff from working directories. They probably aren't
comfortable typing commands at all. They aren't thoughtful enough to
know that they need to somehow inform the computer how the target of the
copy will be used.

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