Re: Why --force with mv?

On Dec 19, 2004, at 10:19 PM, Anthony Shipman wrote:

> If I try to rename a file with 'svn mv' and it has been modified then
> I get a
> message like
>
> svn: Use --force to override this restriction
> svn: Move will not be attempted unless forced
> svn: 'LDAPIf.h' has local modifications
>
> What am I being protected from here? Is there some risk to the version
> tree or
> am I being protected from doing something dumb?

Subversion doesn't have true moves. 'svn mv' == 'svn cp; svn rm'.

If you try to 'svn rm' a modified file, you'll get the same warning.
Subversion does everything it can to avoid destroying unversioned data.
  So both 'svn rm' and 'svn mv' ask you to --force any deletion that
would do so.

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Received on Mon Dec 20 15:21:06 2004