Re: SVN 1.5 - beta1 - svn checkout

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Eric Gillespie <epg_at_pretzelnet.org> wrote:
> "David Glasser" <glasser_at_davidglasser.net> writes:
>
> > That doesn't mean that the UI has to reflect this implementation. I
> > don't see why --accept is useful for checkout; I think it should be
> > removed.
>
> The UI already does. Unless you change 'svn checkout URL existing-wc'
> to error out instead of updating it.

Sure, I think the fact that this works is a bug. checkout and update
are conceptually different operations, no matter how our current
wc/client code works. A more structured working copy would treat them
rather differently. I don't see why we should go out of our way to
encourage people to use checkout as update, even if it happens to work
(and I'd be OK with making it be an error).

Is there any useful reason to use "svn checkout URL existing-wc"?

--dave

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