On Jul 14, 2009, at 11:40, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Jul 14, 2009, at 07:35, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>>> Rsync probably has the handiest syntax, using a trailing / to
>>> control what happens to the target.
>>
>> Gosh, to me, rsync's use of the trailing slash in this way is the
>> single
>> most confusing thing I think I've encountered on the command line.
>
> Agreed - I always cd into the source and use '.' as the source name so
> there can be no ambiguity about whether or not I want the target to
> have
> a new directory created that I didn't include in the target path
> (because if I wanted it, I would have specified it...).
>
> However, there's no equivalent for svn
For importing, where I often have the used-the-wrong-path problem,
the in-place import (see the FAQ) helps. But for other tasks, not so
much.
> and I'm not sure there is any
> 'right' thing to happen if someone else just created the same tag that
> you are copying to, or you forget and repeat the same copy yourself.
I'm sure I've seen a hook script around which will prevent the
creation of a tag inside a tag, which would at least prevent this
particular issue.
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