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Re: encouraging users to switch

From: John Szakmeister <john_at_szakmeister.net>
Date: 2005-02-11 14:42:30 CET

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> John Kristian wrote:
>
>> `svn move` is relatively harmful for this use case, because the implied
>> `svn delete` causes subsequent updates to do relatively harmful things
>> (such as delete working copies, and forget uncommitted additions and
>> deletions).
>
>
[snip]
> There's no crisis here. No lost work. No need to "enforce" anything at
> the server. And honestly, it's not svn's job to send announcements
> about things being renamed.

That's not entirely true. Subversion is responsible for providing the
hooks so users can be informed of these things, and we've done that.
It's called a post-commit hook. When you set it up to perform commit
mails, users will be notified. It's just less intrusive than giving
them an error on the command line.

Personally, I agree with Ben... I see nothing wrong with the current way
things work.

-John

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