Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> On Sep 5, 2005, at 11:22 AM, A.T.Hofkamp wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> Sure, if I run 'svn cp foo/bar/ baz/bop/', and 'baz' is an empty
> directory, then the 'bop' subdir will be created, and it will be an
> identical copy of 'bar'.
So the thing to remember is that svn cp _always_ creates a directory when
copying directories, while cp sometimes doesnot (since '.' means 'all files'
rather than 'directory').
Tnx!
Albert
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Received on Mon Sep 5 18:57:27 2005