Re: [PATCH]: Was: Make --force always switched on for svn move command

On 8/23/06, Paul Burba <paulb@softlanding.com> wrote:

> Subversion prevents unforced moves not only of unversioned paths, but also
> of locally modified paths. Copy allows both of these cases *without* the
> --force option (actually copy doesn't support --force at all). Removing
> the call to svn_client__can_delete() in wc_to_wc_copy() removes the
> requirement for --force. I'm not sure why we ever did this since we are
> moving items, not truly deleting them, unlike the only other call to
> svn_client__can_delete() in svn_client__wc_delete() where such a check
> makes some sense.
>
> Any objections to this change?

One potential problem that I ran across while playing with this is
that while move now carries unversioned files along with it, they
won't be put back after a revert, they're left in the unversioned
destination directory.

Not sure if that's a showstopper or not...

-garrett

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Received on Thu Aug 24 17:32:03 2006