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Re: Moving a moved file

From: Francois Beausoleil <fbos_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Date: 2003-12-26 20:26:09 CET

In my opinion, the real intent here when we do multiple copies should be
that B is a descendant of A, and C is a descendant of B. I would expect
svn log --verbose to tell me that.

Thank you,
François

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:10:52 -0600, "Ben Collins-Sussman"
<sussman@collab.net> said:
> You're right -- the problem here is implementation. I suppose we
> *could* simply not care about the inconsistent ancestor problem, and
> implement transitivity anyway. In other words, 'svn cp A B' would make
> a special check -- if A is schedule-add-with-history, then make B use
> the same ancestor-URL. That means that there would be absolutely no
> difference between
>
> svn cp A B
> svn cp A C
> svn commit
>
> and
>
> svn cp A B
> svn cp B C
> svn commit
>
> In both cases, B and C will claim to be direct descendants of A. Is
> that really okay? In the second scenario, is it really okay that B and
> C are siblings, rather than ancestor/descendant relationship? Doesn't
> that bother you?
>
>
>
>
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