Re: Trying to emulate moving tags under CVS and update working copy to that tag.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gale, David" <David.Gale@Hypertherm.com>
To: "John Rouillard" <rouilj@renesys.com>; <users@subversion.tigris.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 1:49 PM
Subject: RE: Trying to emulate moving tags under CVS and update working copy
to that tag.

John Rouillard wrote:
> now what I want to do is:
>
> svn copy
> .../svnrepo/work/users/sudoers@544
> .../svnrepo/production/users/sudoers
>
> but this generates an error:
>
> svn: Path 'production/users/sudoers' already exists

    I don't have a full answer for you, but you could conceivably fix this
by doing a two-step:

    svn rm .../svnrepo/production/users/sudoers
    svn copy .../svnrepo/work/users/sudoers@544
    .../svnrepo/production/users/sudoers

    On the whole, though, it does seem like subversion ought to support the
    replacement of a file by moving/copying another file on top of it,
    without requiring the rm command (and the extra revision), which would
    allow you to do exactly what you're asking for...

It does. It doesn't do *directories* the same way: "cp" or "copy" operations
have always been a bit of an adventure, in just about every system.

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Received on Thu Jun 1 21:56:42 2006