On 4/22/2006 12:25 PM, Keng Lam wrote:
> The usage of URL appears to be confusing to me with SVN clients. Please
> let me know if I missed something here -
>
> I am trying to understand the svn commands that take URL as a parameter
> for instance svn copy command. So if I try:
>
> $ svn copy https://dodo/trunk http://mipo/tags/t1
> subversion/libsvn_client/copy.c:357: (apr_err=200007)
> svn: Source and dest appear not to be in the same repository (src: 'https://dodo/trunk'; dst: 'http://mipo/tags/t1')
>
> Basically I can't copy across repository. I can only copy relative to
> my current svn repos. If that is the case what's the point of
> having a URL in the destination of commands like copy/mkdir/move ?
I think it's just a simple way to indicate that you want to do a
repository copy, rather than touching the working copy. It could be
done by inventing some new syntax, e.g.
svn copy repos:/trunk repos:/tags/t1
to save typing, but this is hardly worth the trouble: if you want it,
you can do it yourself using environment variables. For example,
REPOS=https://dodo
svn copy $REPOS/trunk $REPOS/tags/t1
The question of why you can't copy between repositories is different. I
think that's because it would be impossible to maintain history across
such a copy. Since "svn copy" is supposed to maintain history, it can't
possibly work.
>
> Did I miss something or SVN semantics with dest URL are confusing ? If I can copy
> only relative to the current repos, won't it be more intutive to have a relative
> path option with appropriate flags to indicate that a server-side operation needs
> to be triggered as opposed to using an open-ended URL semantics ?
The flags would need to be applied to each argument, since you've got
both src and dest that could be in the repository. I don't think there
are any other cases in SVN syntax where flags apply to arguments. They
apply to the command as a whole.
Duncan Murdoch
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Received on Sat Apr 22 19:00:08 2006