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

From: Jonathan Gilbert <o2w9gs702_at_sneakemail.com>
Date: 2006-04-21 19:04:17 CEST

At 12:58 PM 21/04/2006 -0400, Paul Burba wrote:
>"Jonathan Gilbert" 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?

My point was more that I strongly disagree with "--force" being used for
"the functionality formerly known as takeover". It really doesn't say what
it's doing *at all*. What I meant to say, but didn't really make clear, was
that that is how I think "checkout --force" should behave *if it is given
that flag at all*.

Sorry I wasn't clear :-)

Jonathan Gilbert

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