Re: Branching: not getting it

From: <andy.glew@amd.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 5:22 PM

> > And how can a path possibly change? a/b/c
> > is always going to be a/b/c.
>
> Unless it has been svn renamed or copied
> to a different path.

You've missed the point, which is that many people use the term path to
refer to the string, not the object it references, e.g.
     bash> aPath="a/b/c"
     bash> svn mv $aPath a/b/d
     bash> echo $aPath
     a/b/c

See! It (i.e. aPath) hasn't changed!

Sorry for being so pedantic, but that's often necessary with these sorts of
ambiguities. We often get so locked into one particular interpretation for
a word that it's difficult to understand how other people use it
differently, especially when the usages are real close but not exactly the
same.

Gary

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Received on Fri Apr 30 19:12:17 2004