RE: svn copy onto itself is possible

Ben wrote:

> 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. :-)
Yes please. :-)

I stumbled onto that problem, when I accidentally hit 'OK' in TortoiseSVN's
copy dialog instead of 'cancel'. Since source and destination URLs are
identical by default, creating a copy into itself was not-really(tm) what I
wanted to happen.

Admittedly that hasn't happened to me when using the svn cl client yet,
which I use often. But I'm also a bit paranoid and try my cl commands on a
dummy repository, before trashing our production repos ;-)

Cheers
-Lübbe

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Received on Wed Oct 1 16:29:28 2003