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

From: SteveKing <steveking_at_gmx.ch>
Date: 2004-12-18 17:14:31 CET

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> This is a pretty persuasive argument. In other words, you're suggesting
> that we let the *caller* decide whether to create a new directory or
> not. svn_client_move2() should either throw a specific error if the
> target already exists (which the client can trap), or it could take a
> new boolean argument to toggle directory-creation behavior.

It's not just svn_client_move() - svn_client_copy() has the same
behaviour (as I mentioned in the example creating the tag).

> These API changes seem reasonable to me. Of course, the commandline
> client shouldn't change it's behavior here, but at least we can offer
> more options for other clients.

Should I file an issue about this?

Stefan

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