Re: Copy/move-handling on update in 1.5

On 11/14/07, Tor Ringstad <torhr@pvv.org> wrote:
> There are a few caveats: [...] Also, if an incoming move-operation
> deletes 'foo' before it attempts to copy it to 'bar', then the copy
> will fail, and the client reverts to the old behavior of fetching a
> pristine copy of the file from the repository.
>
> Is this what hits me? I can see (note #1) that the delete appears to
> happen before the copy. Is this what the caveat is talking about?

Yes.

> In that case, is there actually any situation where the *user* will
> notice any improvements with regard to copy/move-handling on update?

Yes. When the file is copied before it is deleted. I am not sure if
this is predictable via filename. You could do:

svn mv file2 afile2

And see if that is different.

Moving a file from a subdir into its parent should do it.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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