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Re: Proposed New Feature (SVNROOT)

From: Marcin Kasperski <Marcin.Kasperski_at_softax.com.pl>
Date: 2004-03-19 11:55:16 CET

> > Also, many of the commands in Subversion behave *differently* when
> > invoked on URLs than when invoked on working copy paths. There is
> > quite often a need to invoke a command for the URL that corresponds to
> > the current working copy. And in many cases it is necessary to refer
> > to the root of the repository the working copy is in.
> >
> > So, just changing checkout and import not only makes them inconsistent
> > with all other commands taking URLs, but also does not really solve
> > the problem since the URLs are used all the time in other operations.
>
> I'd love to have something like $SVNROOT. But this reply is exactly
> right on the money. It needs to be made consistent with all the
> commands. I'm not sure there is a good way to do it.

What about syntax like

   svn copy //some/file //other/file

(two slashes mean using default repository)?

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