C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Kamesh Jayachandran wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I deleted issue-2897-take2 branch at r32477 and recreated again it from
>> trunk_at_32477 at r32478. When I ran 'svn up' on my old 'issue-2897-take2'
>> working copy it updated to the new URL which I think is wrong or atleast
>> a new behaviour in trunk.
>>
>>
>> $trunk_svn co
>> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/branches/issue-2897-take2@32476
>>
>> $cd issue-2897-take2
>> $trunk_svn up #This should fail, but succeeds as of trunk svn
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> Why it succeeds is easy to explain. Likewise, why it should fail is
> easy to understand.
>
> With the new location-segments code, it would be easy to write an
> svn_repos_youngest_common_ancestor() function (like the
> svn_client__get_youngest_common_ancestor() I wrote for the client side)
> which could be employed by the dir-delta code and used to verify that
> what-you-have and what-you-want share a single line of history in the
> update case. It could also be used to safeguard the switch case by
> complaining if what-you-have and what-you-want have no common ancestor
> at all (so you don't accidentally switch to some arbitrary tree location).
WARNING: This way likely lies great performance pain for 1.4-era (and
older) repository formats which lack the node-origins cache support.
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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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Received on 2008-08-14 21:32:11 CEST