Re: Weird behavior from checkout

On Mar 9, 2005, at 12:15 PM, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
> I believe this because that is what i believe most users expect (in
> fact, i only noticed all of this because 3 different ex-cvs users
> brought it to my attention)
> I will simply note that I still find it completely unintuitiveand will
> spend years trying to get users to use one syntax over the other
> because it is so much faster and less load on the server :)
>

The whole peg-revision feature is new, and is the result of svn users
complaining that commands don't follow renames.

For example, people would run

        svn cat -rX foo.c

And get errors about foo.c not existing in rX, when in fact it *did*
exist, but in a different location. We especially got complaints about
'svn diff' not following renames.

So what you're seeing here is a widespread consistent behavior across
all commands:

      svn command -rX path

          1. go to path@HEAD
          2. trace rename history back to rX
          3. use that (possibly different) location in rX

It just so happens that in the case of 'svn co -rX URL', this new
syntax and behavior is contradicting an equally valid interpretation of
what to expect. :-/

Is this tricky to explain to users? It's not yet documented in the
book, though I plan to fix that.
  

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Received on Wed Mar 9 19:39:11 2005