Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 22:49 +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
>
>>> 1. this is a good idea, a useful new feature. very much in demand.
>>
>>+1.
>
> Where are people getting this impression from?
Heh, a good question!
> I don't watch the users
> list, but from my perspective this is a weird use case which came up on
> the dev list after several years, and is something you'd want once and
> could work around most of the time.
I don't have any hard evidence, and perhaps I was being a bit too free with my
"+1" as I don't know that it is very much in demand. However, when it came up
recently on the dev list I thought, "At last, somebody is prepared to actually
implement this idea." It may be the first time it was written down as a
concrete proposal, but it wasn't a new idea to me.
I think what I really meant by my "+1" is that this behaviour just feels Right.
It seems like what "checkout --force" really ought to do, and is only half
way to doing at the moment. I have occasionally thought about how this
behaviour would be a good thing ever since I first started playing with
Subversion. I can easily understand that people will find it useful in practice.
Perhaps it won't be useful very often, but to me it would be useful more often
than plain "svn import". I consider "import" to be almost a toy, in that I
always want to "svn add" a new directory tree into an empty WC so that I get
the chance to check it and clean it up (add properties, remove some files from
version control without deleting them from disk, etc.) before committing the
first revision of it. I will only use "import" on an unimportant "toy"
repository, because there is much too high a risk of getting unintended files
into the repository where the mistake and the wasted space is preserved
forever. Forgive me if this criticism of "import" is a little mistaken or
irrelevant; certainly "takeover" in no way replaces "import".
Dislike of "svn import" isn't support for "takeover", but I believe that my
feeling that the "takeover" feature is more useful than "import" is a
meaningful way of expressing my degree of support for it.
- Julian
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Received on Tue Aug 2 00:55:13 2005