Re: how to predict copy behavior?!

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> On Sep 5, 2005, at 8:43 AM, A.T.Hofkamp wrote:
>
>>
>> This kind of things happens often with me, for some reason copying
>> and moving files/dirs at the file system is easy (I almost never make
>> mistakes there), while with svn I often end up with a result I don't
>> intended/wanted.
>
>
> Both 'svn cp' and 'cp' follow the same basic rule when you run 'copy A B':
>
> if B exists:
> create B/basename(A)
> else:
> create B, where B == basename(A)

I don't understand what you mean by "where B == basename(A)", does that imply
that you throw away the name B in the latter case?

cp at least doesn't do this, 'cp -r A B' for non-existing B does

1. create B
2. 'cp -r A/* B' (with * also including the hidden files/dirs).
    (copy all files in A to B/.)

> There are two differences, however, that I'm aware of:
>
> 1. subversion always canonicalizes "/foo/bar/baz/." into "/foo/
> bar/baz",
> for every command, I think.

This prevents me from copying contents of a directory in one command.
While this can be worked around, being able to refer to "all files in
directory X" seems a useful concept for svn.

Are there other ways to express this concept?

> 2. 'svn cp' only takes two arguments, instead of N arguments.

so I found out :-)
Not a major problem imho.

Albert

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Received on Mon Sep 5 18:24:00 2005