Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Eric Gillespie <epg_at_pretzelnet.org> wrote:
>> Eric Gillespie <epg_at_pretzelnet.org> writes:
>>
>> > svn sw ^/branches => OOPS
>> >
>> > That sucks even on a sane-sized project. On a big ball of mud?
>> > CRIPES! So what do poor lusers do after it chugs along for way
>> > too long? They interrupt it. Hello wc corruption.
>>
>> Glasser just had a good idea: allow the esoteric switch only if
>> the user gives the --ignore-ancestry; otherwise, error out on any
>> switch to a path that doesn't share ancestry.
>
> Mike Pilato (and Glasser) would know better, but didn't we create some
> new API for merge that would make checking this ancestry really easy
> now? I think it would be a good idea too.
>
I was already thinking of using svn_client__get_youngest_common_ancestor()
to make this check. And --ignore-ancestry as a more-appropriately-name
"force" flag sounds great. +1 all over this.
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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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Received on 2008-04-25 13:58:36 CEST