Re: SVN 1.5 - beta1 - svn checkout

"Ben Collins-Sussman" <sussman_at_red-bean.com> writes:
> History:
>
> * Checkout and update used to be different codepaths. Neither was
> restartable. Right before launching 1.0, we decided this was a
> showstopper.
>
> * kfogel and I made checkout/update into a single codepath which was
> inherently restartable. A checkout just creates a working copy with
> "all items missing", and requests an update.
>
> * A side-effect of this change, it turned out that checkouts were
> restartable by *either* 'co' or 'up'... they both ended up invoking
> the same codepath. We decided it was nifty cool to be so flexible,
> and left the side-effect alone.

Well, then my memory is playing tricks on me -- I thought the usage
decision was older than that. But I believe you.

In any case, do we like the property of "restartable by re-invoking the
same command" ?

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Received on 2008-04-03 01:07:14 CEST