Re: Partial working copy relocation

On 07/23/2010 03:43 PM, Bob Archer wrote:
> Are there any plans to have some way to indicate a "project root" in svn
> 1.7? Or, will it work the same way... we will know the working copy root but
> not necessarily the project/repository root. Having this might help with
> sub-tree merges as well as the relocate issue being talked about above.

I don't follow how the knowledge of the project root really matters in the
scope of this discussion. This type of relocate operation is done not when
you want to switch a working copy directory so that it reflects some other
repository tree, but when you want to do a working copy metadata rewrite to
account for a total change in the repository root URL for the project.

So, not:

   # I'd like to work on the 'some-branch' branch now.
   svn switch wc ^/branches/some-branch

But

   # IT has switched from svnserve- to Apache-based SVN hosting.
   svn switch --relocate svn://server/svn/repo http://server/svn/repo wc

However, we've discussed numerous times the value of having some indication
of the root of the project branch -- useful for preventing subtree merges,
useful for possibly storing branch management policies, etc. No, that's not
planned for 1.7. But I think it's definitely something we should explore
for future releases.

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