Dean Kopesky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe the copy subcommand (and more generally, any subcommand that
> fetches external items) should accept the --ignore-externals option.
>
> If I copy from a repository URL into my workspace, sometimes I do not
> want the externals fetched, just like I sometimes do not want them
> fetched when checking out a URL directly. (The exact use case involves
> a release management system that assembles and commits release trees
> from "blessed" revisions of specific dirs and files... long story, but I
> can provide more details if you need them.)
Actually, I'm wondering why 'svn copy' doesn't just *always* ignore
externals. 'svn copy REPOS-URL WC-PATH' is ultimately a scheduling
operation, and no other scheduling operation fleshes out externals. So I'd
suggest that 'svn copy' *never* flesh out externals, and if folks want them,
they do 'svn copy REPOS-URL WC-PATH && svn update WC-PATH'.
Is there a meaningful use-case for the behavior we see today?
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Received on 2008-02-01 21:43:45 CET