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Re: --dry-run

From: Matthew Smith <chedderslam_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:42:03 -0500

Awesome, thank you.

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Matthew Smith <chedderslam_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was reading through the subversion book at
>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch09.html and came across the
>> "--dry-run" command. The book says that it "Goes through all the
>> motions of running a command, but makes no actual changes—either on
>> disk or in the repository." This seems pretty useful as I am still
>> learning my way around and don't want to screw things up.
>>
>> However, I tried it with two command and got the same error:
>> svn update --dry-run
>> Subcommand 'update' doesn't accept option '--dry-run'
>> Type 'svn help update' for usage.
>>
>> svn ci --dry-run
>> Subcommand 'commit' doesn't accept option '--dry-run'
>> Type 'svn help commit' for usage.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
> That option only applies to the merge command.
>
>
> --
> Thanks
>
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/
>

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