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Re: Outdated check in import?

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:37:29 +0100 (BST)

C. Michael Pilato wrote:

> I guess I don't see this as "whack-a-mole with 'svn
> import'".  'svn import' is treated uniquely because it is
> genuinely unique -- no other Subversion operation tries to
> directly replicate unversioned data in the repository without
> first "staging it" in the working copy state.  The only other
> thing
> that comes close is 'svn mkdir URL' (which, by the way, doesn't
> appear to be
> disallowing the creation of .svn/ directories ... oops!).

And
  svn copy --parents ... $URL/foo/.svn/bar
  svn move --parents ... $URL/foo/.svn/bar

All four of these commands are "genuinely unique" in this common way :-P

- Julian
Received on 2012-04-19 19:38:06 CEST

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