Re: subversion cp and the / at the end

Clemens Schwaighofer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just found out through the hard way, that putting a / at the end of a
> path is a bad idea if you to copy for branching.
>
> I did
>
> svn cp svn://foo.host/clients/bar/project_a/dev/
> svn://foo.host/clients/bar/project_a/stable/
>
> and I had a dev dir in stable. *sigh* well you have to be careful what
> you do ...

This has less to do with the '/' at the end, and more to do with the
fact that the directory already exists. If you issue a 'svn cp A B',
and B is a directory that already exists, then it will copy A into B.

You have to remove the directory first, and then perform your the copy.

-John

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Received on Tue Jan 11 12:26:09 2005