Re: Moving a moved file

Folker Schamel <schamel23@spinor.com> writes:
> First I also want to wish everyone happy chrismas
> and big, big thanks to the svn team for developing
> this great tool!

Thanks, and Happy Newton's Birthday to you! (Dec 25th, 1642)

Of course, the great calendrical reset in England in September of 1752
makes it a bit silly to consider anniversaries from before then :-)...

> You cannot move a moved file again without an intermediate
> commit of a broken project state, see log below.
> Is there a logical reason for this?
> Somehow I would expect that svn commands
> which operate on a wc should be associative
> (-> "move a b; move b c" should be equivalent to "move a c";
> "add a; move a b" should be equivalent "add b" etc.)
> The practical aspect is that if you did a wrong move,
> it is ugly to correct this mistake without checking in
> a broken project state into the repository.

Why not just revert the original move and then do the intended move?

> Another practical aspect for example is that you cannot
> move a directory and then afterwards rename files within
> this directory without an intermediate commit.

Yes, true. I can't remember why we had this restriction, now.

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Received on Fri Dec 26 17:24:17 2003