Re: Takeover Take 2 Was: Re: the 'takeover' feature

"Jonathan Gilbert" <o2w9gs702@sneakemail.com> wrote on 04/21/2006 12:23:15
PM:

> svn checkout --force
> Should blindly overwrite existing local files. A user using this
option
> should be well aware of this behaviour and not use it if he is worried
> about losing local changes.

Hi Jonathan,

Respectfully, I strongly disagree with this idea. A user's local files
might be the only copy they have. For Subversion to overwrite these
files, even if only when using --force, seems too harsh and doesn't
actually solve a problem anyone has(?).

I don't spend a lot of time reading the users list, but I suspect there
are a host of new users out there who could easily shoot themselves in the
foot with something like this. We can't save people from driving off the
cliff all the time, but we can at least throw up some guardrails. No?

Paul B.

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