Re: unexpected behaviour (bug?) when moving/copying

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> Oops, sorry, I read too quickly. So TSVN could prompt the user if they
> want the directories to be 'merged' together the way explorer normally
> does. If so, then TSVN can 'svn copy' each dir1\* object into
> targetdir\, right?

I'm not really in need of Subversion doing a merge here. What worries me
a little is that the Subversion library behaves like the CL client
instead of like all other libs I know. Example:
svn_client_move()
behaves the same way as
svn mv
But move commands in libraries usually behave different. Just check out
apr_file_move()
Such a library function would never just create a new subfolder if the
target folder already exists. It's up to the client program to check
that and decide what to do in such a case. If the library just creates a
subfolder and doesn't throw a warning or an error, it's very difficult
for a client to implement its own behaviour.
I mean, if
svn_client_move() would just overwrite the target, ok. Better would be
if the function had a force flag and throw an error if the target exists
and the force flag isn't set. That way a client program could
immediately see the target exists and decide what to do. But as long as
everything seems to work ok, a client program would have to do a lot of
checks before even calling the library function.

Stefan

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