On 08/24/2011 04:36 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Neels J Hofmeyr wrote on Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 22:04:11 +0200:
>> On 08/24/2011 04:01 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>>> Neels J Hofmeyr wrote on Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 15:32:20 +0200:
>>>> Changelists have been *designed* in the flipped-over wrong-way-round: they
>>>> *include*, not exclude selected items. We'd have to implement this against
>>>> its basic design. (Like using switch for externals, remember?)
>>>
>>> Changelists were designed to group files. What's fundamentally flawed in
>>>
>>> % svn cl foo A/mu ./iota
>>> % svn commit --depth=empty A/mu ./iota --except-cl=foo
>>
>> Usually the code goes like "if there is a changelist, act on the node only
>> when it is part of the changelist." ...well, it's just what I remember
>> faintly, admittedly. Is that true?
>>
>
> My recollection is that 'svn $subcommand foo --changelist bar' applies
> to one of:
>
> - the subset of descendants of that are in changelist 'bar';
> - both to foo and to members of 'bar'
>
> where some subcommands behave differently than others.
There should be no difference in behavior between subcommands. The
documented behavior of changelists is to operate as filters only. So, 'svn
$subcommand foo --changelist bar' operates on the subset of would-be targets
were --changelist not specified which are members of the specific changelist.
This means, for example, that 'svn info --changelist foo' will show nothing
because 'svn info' is depth-zero by default and directories can't be in
changelists, rather than showing all children of $CWD which are in the 'foo'
changelist.
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