feature suggestion: backup/move file when checking out

i know this kind of stuff is more for file configuration versionning,
but i permit to ask. why not not having a feature when checkout (and
updating) in an existing non-versioned tree to move file to <file>.orig
and get file from svn ?

the file is backup in a same way as perl file replacement .bak

perl -pi.bak -e "s/Old/New/g" file

like

svn co -i.bak svn://server/project/trunk destdir
svn co -i.orig svn://server/project/trunk destdir

we can precise the existing backup could also be added to ignore files

a bit related to
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#in-place-import

in this way, installing a new server, to reconfigure it, you only need to
svn co -i.orig svn://server/project/trunk/unixroot /

existing directories are not moved, but recognized in the svn tree
existing files are moved to .orig and ignored thereafter.
all svn files are added

thanks
Regards

                Julien

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Received on Sat Oct 29 11:10:36 2005