Re: SVN 1.5 - beta1 - svn checkout

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com> wrote:
> "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" ?

I'm a little torn; some of my wc-ng ideas include making checkout a
little specialler.

But even if you're using checkout to restart a checkout, would you
ever want to use --accept?

--dave

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David Glasser | glasser@davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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