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RE: Updating to revision before copy of branch

From: Dale Worley <dworley_at_pingtel.com>
Date: 2005-07-05 17:19:16 CEST

> From: Greg Fodor [mailto:greg@parature.com
>
> Hmm.. I see your point. But doesn't this then invalidate the
> clarification that copy is "with history"? If it were with
> history, then
> essentially the entire repository would behave, post copy, as if the
> branch existed back in revision 50 as well?

Well, that's not what Subversion means by "with history". It means "this
file is a modified version of some particular earlier revision of some
particular file". And it's a principle of SCM that past revisions are never
changed.

Dale

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