On 28.10.2016 09:02, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 02:49:04AM +0200, bert_at_qqmail.nl wrote:
>> In the summary I don’t see the support for restartability of a broken checkout. See the documentation of svn checkout in the svn-book. (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.ref.svn.c.checkout.html)
> Yes, we'll need to make checkout work automatically in that case.
>
> For example, inside the client library(!) the checkout code path could ask
> if the target dir is already a working copy root (svn_wc__is_wcroot())
> and if so get its url (svn_wc__node_get_repos_info()) and then compare
> that url to the (canonicalized version of) the URL which was passed on
> the command line. If those match, proceed without require the force flag.
>
> That's the idea -- I don't know if this would be straightforward to
> implement right now, or if something would get in the way of this.
It's never that simple ... you'd have to compare repos UUID, not URL,
and possibly do an automatic relocate if the UUIDs match but the URLs don't.
-- Brane
Received on 2016-10-28 14:22:36 CEST