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Re: [PATCH] make svnmucc consistently overwrite copy targets

From: <kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 12:50:36 -0600

"C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote on 11/06/2008 12:47:02 PM:
> Philip Martin wrote:
> > "Kevin Radke" <kmradke_at_gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> svnmucc would allow an user to use "CP REV SRC DST" when both SRC and
> >> DST URLs were directories. It would (silently) "replace" DST with
> >> SRC. When used with specific file names it would return an error
that
> >> "DST already exists".
> >
> > When I try the current trunk build the copy fails for both files and
> > directories. The svnmucc test suite is rather small and doesn't test
> > this behaviour so it may have been different in the past, but I'd be
> > surprised if it has changed.
>
> Kevin, were you testing over DAV?
> Philip, were you *not* testing over DAV?
>
> I recall an oddity with mod_dav in that an overwriting add gets
transformed
> under-the-hood into a delete and then an add, whereas a similar action
> against svnserve or via ra_local would result in an "already exists"
error.

Yes, I only tested over DAV...

Kevin R.
Received on 2008-11-06 19:50:58 CET

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