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Re: Regarding issue #3348 ("Provide syntax which means 'include all files *not* in a changelist'")

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 06:27:58 +0200

C. Michael Pilato wrote on Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 22:22:20 -0500:
> On 01/04/2013 05:44 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 05:29:30PM -0500, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> >> "--cl=none" -- introduces a reserved changelist name "none" that
> >> someone, somewhere might already be really using.
> >
> > Is this really a problem?
> >
> > We're bumping the working copy format anyway for 1.8, so the new
> > format could start reserving the 'none' changelist. An existing 'none'
> > changelist could be detected by 'svn upgrade'. It could then ask the user
> > to rename the changelist before upgrading, or even prompt for a new
> > name which makes upgrading easier if 1.7 isn't installed anymore.
> >
> > I like --cl none much better than --cl "".
>
> Oooh... that's a sneaky idea. I rather like it! Doesn't really hope folks
> who have scripted processes which involve a changelist named "none", of
> course, but we may be well into "edge-case" territory, here.

--cl=svn:none would be even more edge-case.
Received on 2013-01-06 05:28:38 CET

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