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Re: Is this a bug or a feature?

From: Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:45:01 +0100

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:36:06AM -0500, Will Gant wrote:
> Strange. I had no idea that cp did that.
>
> Is there another switch I should be specifying to override this behavior
> (say to make it prompt or to throw an error or something?)? Or is there
> a way we can easily tell if a directory already exists?

You could try 'svn ls', it should list the directory is it exists.

> I think we can mostly get around the problem, but the behavior does seem
> somewhat counterintuitive.

That depends entirely on what you expect :)

Stefan
Received on 2009-07-13 18:46:07 CEST

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