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Re: Svn copy does not work if destination file already exist

From: Steve Bakke <steven.bakke_at_amd.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:02:03 -0500

It sounds like you are trying to emulate CVS tags - AKA tags as
labels. Subversion doesn't support this currently. It has been
discussed many times on this list. I wouldn't expect that anyone
would seriously want to change the behavior of 'svn cp'.

On the other hand, many people have expressed a desire to have
"labels" as an addition to the current functionality.

-steve

On Jan 23, 2009, at 7:13 AM, Vishal Gangwal wrote:

> Hi
>
> Svn copy does not work if destination file already exist . For
> example if we have file trunk/a.txt and we use " svn copy trunk/
> a.txt tags/a.txt " .
> It will copy file trunk/a.txt into tags directory as a.txt .
>
> Now we modify file trunk/a.txt and again we want to use " svn copy
> trunk/a.txt tags/a.txt " , so that a.txt in tags directory is
> updated copy of a.txt in trunk directory.
> But svn gives following error :
> svn: Failure opening '/tags/a.txt/a.txt'
> svn: '/trunk/a.txt' is not a directory in filesystem '/repos/test/db'
> So we are using " svn del tags/a.txt " and then " svn copy trunk/
> a.txt tags/a.txt "
>
> Is there any other way to achieve this ?
>
> So that we don't have to delete the file and save one revision
> number . And also we don't want repository history showing file
> deleted .
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Vishal Gangwal
>
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