Re: svn copy onto itself is possible

"C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato@collab.net> writes:

> Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
>
> > Hm, oh well. I find Unix 'cp' behavior really intuitive, and I don't
> > think I've ever been bitten by this, in Unix or Subversion. Maybe I'm
> > just a freak. :-)
>
> You've never, ever, tried to use 'mv' to rename DIR1 to DIR2 unaware
> that there already was a DIR2 on your system? As universally as you
> use 'foo', 'bloo', et al, I find that really hard to believe -- but
> hey, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

I think it's because I'm always super-paranoid using Unix or svn
'mv'. I manually check the destination beforehand. I double-check
the commandline. These behaviors are now ingrained.

So, hmmm.... perhaps such excessive paranoia *is* indicative of a UI
problem. Maybe a warning would be kinder. :-)

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Received on Wed Oct 1 16:18:32 2003