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Re: Outdated check in import?

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:47:46 -0400

On 04/19/2012 01:37 PM, Julian Foad wrote:
> 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

Yeah, copy and move occurred to me in the shower this morning. So much for
uniqueness. :-(

-- 
C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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Received on 2012-04-20 21:44:44 CEST

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