Re: Base text files, re: IRC chat

Karl Fogel wrote on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 at 12:18 -0400:
> 1. The metadata knows where the working copy/copies live, by absolute
> path, as Greg says.
>
> 2. If you plain mv or cp a working copy, it stops working, BUT...
>
> 3. ...the error message from Subversion points out that the working
> copy may have been mv'd or cp'd, and offers a command to
> "re-register" it with the metadata store. This command is the
> metadata store's chance to clean up its reference counts
> w.r.t. that working copy.

... and also offers another command to un-register the previous location.
And a command to list all WCs it knows about, maybe (so you can figure out
what needs to be unregistered).

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Received on 2008-09-15 18:36:15 CEST