Re: [PATCH] Allow replace on repo-to-repo copy

On 2/28/07, Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_wright@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Justin Patrin wrote:
> > On 1/26/07, Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com> wrote:
> >> > Justin Patrin wrote:
> >> > > In order to support more easily scriptable tagging (among other
> >> > > things), I've created a patch to allow replacement of the destination
> >> > > in a repo to repo copy.
> >>
> >> Excellent!
> >>
> >> On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> >> > I will agree that the svn commandline client lacks repository replace
> >> > functionality, but I don't think that the copy command is the correct
> >> > place to add it. At this point, I'm not sure where is ('svn replace'?)
> >>
> >> As a user of the svn command line client, I'd prefer to see this
> >> functionality as "svn copy --replace" than as a new "svn replace"
> >> command. I don't know where it should go in the bindings.
> >>
> >> > Have you looked at using mucc? It can be found in the source tree at
> >> > contrib/client-side/mucc.c. mucc is a client which can combine
> >> multiple
> >> > repository actions into a single commit. I haven't tested it for your
> >> > use case, but you may want to.
> >>
> >> Yes, mucc works for this, but only in the URL-to-URL case. The
> >> proposed "copy --replace" would work for all combinations of
> >> {WC,URL}-to-{WC,URL}. Also, many people don't have mucc installed.
> >>
> >
> > Well, my patch only takes into account URL-to-URL as this is the case
> > I was interested in. It should be pretty simple to extend this to the
> > other cases.
>
> Justin,
> Discussion seems to have petered out, but the concept does have merit.
> I've gone ahead and filed this in the issue tracker as issue #2727 so
> that it doesn't get lost.
>

Oh, thanks. :-) I had planned on updating the patch to do the same for
all of the other options but never got the interest up to do it. The
only one it makes any real difference for is repo-to-repo since the
rest can be done in a workspace.

-- 
Justin Patrin
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