Concerning Re: svn rename glob?
Toby Thain wrote on 12 Jan 2009, 9:50, at least in part:
> >> Yeah, that was quite condensed. While I do a lot in Perl - when it
> >> comes to any sort of search&replace I never became warm with Python
> >> - I have one objection: these commandlines are easily fired, but
> >> leave little control. Only afterwards one really sees what they
> >> did, and if the prompt was closed in the meantime one never can
> >> find out what was wrong in the first place.
>
> However, since it's a working copy, if 'svn status' showed something
> amiss, you'd have the opportunity to revert and try again. :)
Certainly. OTOH how often is it that such an operation is truly
isolated? In a website, as I do, such a rename likely goes with the
modification of links, that work would be reverted as well. And
while a rename probably is one of the more drastic operations I
frequently have to do a variety of edits, covering larger numbers of
files and yet belonging together in one commit. Doing this per
scripts gives me both more convenient means of testing and the
opportunity of trying again much easier in the worst case of one
step having gone completely wrong. It all depends ...
Jan Hendrik
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