Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor) wrote:
>>NPU then performs any of the operations that don't entirely work with
>>the "separate trees" arrangement, but do work with the "meta-data in
>>working copy" arrangement, such as copying the working copy to
>>another location or computer.
>>
>>SVN "breaks."
>>
>>
>
>At this point, subversion could let the user know that her metadata is out
>of sync with the working copy, and offer to adjust to meta-data to point to
>the correct location (and prompt the user to enter it). This prevents the
>call to the PW, the sweaty palms, as well as YAUBW (Yet Another Underwater
>Basket Weaver).
>
>
How does subversion know that metadata exists at all for the directory
in any form? It could be an export. If you think this will remove the
need for 'export', then how would you propose that the working copy
information get "automatically" cleaned from the user-global metadata store?
More importantly, if there are multiple working copies of the same tree
checked out, how would it know which one to migrate to? Even two
different working copies - this scheme appears to only allows searching
based on the file path, since there is no longer any identifiers present
on the working copy.
-David Waite
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Received on Wed Aug 27 20:41:12 2003