svncopy.pl: the final observations

  i'm about to write a wiki page for my co-workers on the use of
svncopy.pl to make copies while pinning externals and, as i see it,
there are only two issues i have to draw their attention to.

1) if you use svncopy.pl the way you would use a regular "svn copy",
then you'll end up with an extra level of directory:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2008-11/0293.shtml

  not a big deal, as long as you *know* that's what's going to happen.
my solution was just to manually copy over all of the top-level
directories in one long command, so i'm good with that.

2) to my surprise, svncopy.pl doesn't handle externals at the
top level of the repository. i haven't brushed up on my perl enough
to peruse the code and see if that's a bug, a feature or a necessary
evil, but having an external right under the trunk caused the
svncopy.pl to fail. the workaround was to just handle that manually,
but it did come as a bit of a shock.

 anyway, that's it. thoughts?

rday

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Robert P. J. Day
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