RE: .svn directories

At 11:10 AM -0700 8/27/03, Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor) wrote:
>
>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

Certainly could. There'd need to be some design thought given to
making or confirming the correlation (the term "UUID" floats through
my mind searching for an application).

Of course, if we want positively *no* SVN metadata in the wc, then we
can't use a UUID (nowhere to store it, wc-side). Kind of kills a lot
of other inspirations, too, actually. How absolute are we here? Can
we let there be just one measly little meta-data file, please?

On a completely different fever-dream: relinking the meta-data and WC
also implies some sort of reconciliation or resyncing, doesn't it?
I'm thinking about scenarios like:

User creates working copy
User *copies* (not "moves") WC elsewhere
User reconnects meta-data to new WC
User changes meta-data-state ("how?" is the question ... oh, say, "svn switch")
User nukes new WC
User reconnects old WC

Svn thinks the WC is based on the branch to which the other WC was
switched, and therefore that there've been a whale of a lot of
changes made here....

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