Re: [Subversion Wiki] Update of "MultiLayerMoves" by PhilipMartin

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 15:15, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:07:47PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote:
>> Running update also makes mixed-rev source into single-rev so I'd be
>> happy not to support mixed-rev move, except that update a single-rev
>> tree from one rev to another goes through mixed-rev.
>
> IMO we don't need to support mixed-rev move at all if it causes
> too much pain. If people *really* needed that, they could still
> run a mixed-rev-copy+delete.
>
> Remember that this is a new feature. We can freely add constraints
> to it until it gets released.

I thought about that, as I wrote my email. But it isn't a "new
feature" from the user's perspective. Subversion 1.7 has no problem
with 'svn move' on a mixed-revision working copy. Thus, requiring
single-rev would be a regression :-(

Cheers,
-g
Received on 2012-04-27 21:36:00 CEST