feature suggestion: adressing the repo relative to working copy url

Hi all,

as suggested by Johan, I dare to drop a feature suggestion onto this
mailing list.

In a multi project repository, ^/trunk and ^/branches do not usually
point to the trunk and branches of a project. Rather something like

   ^/somedir/someproject/branches

is needed.

Given a working copy of ^/somedir/someproject/trunk, it would be great
to address the repository relative to that URL. Say '%' would be the
shortcut, then I could

svn list %/../branches
svn copy . %/../branches/mycoolfeature
svn switch . %/../branches/mycoolfeature
svn merge %/../../trunk

Use of '..' seems to be forbidden in repository URLs, but some syntax
should be possible to address this. %% for %/.. and %%% for %/../.. is
one thing that springs to mind, surely others can come up with even
better suggestions.

Rationale:

The sequence of commands shown above motivated me to suggest this
feature. Branching and merging would get much easier for multi-project
repositories, where ^ does not easily lead to trunk and branches.

Alternative Idea:

If trunk/tags/versions/branches where not just conventions, an
alternative would be to have a notation point to the "root of the
project", i.e. the parent of trunk and branches. But I would not know
how to sanely define it for working copies that have neither of
trunk/branches/tags/versions in their repository path's ancestry.

Harald
Received on 2017-02-21 12:35:28 CET