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Re: Is this a bug or a feature?

From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon_at_freemail.ru>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:45:07 +0400

Greetings, Stefan Sperling!

>> I guess I'm still a bit lost. I'm puzzled as to why subversion copies
>> the new data into a child directory of the target rather than throwing
>> an error out or overwriting. I'm not sure what the purpose of that
>> feature would be.

> It's consistent with the way UNIX cp works.

It's consistent with the way ANY filesystem "copy" command works.
In the end, Subversion is a file system.

--
WBR,
 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon_at_freemail.ru) 14.07.2009, <15:42>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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