Re: Subversion Doesn't Have Branches aka Crossing the Streams aka Branches as First Class Objects?

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 03:21:15PM +0000, Bob Archer wrote:
> I would like to see more "first class" support for projects and/or
> defining a project root. For example, perhaps there can be an
> svn:projectroot property that must be on a folder and the branch/merge
> command will only work on project roots. If that is done of course the
> maintain backward compatibility there could be a switch in the client
> config to allow for bypassing this requirement, or perhaps the --force
> switch could do it. Also, a property can be place on a branch so that
> tooling can know it is actually a semantic branch rather than just a
> fork (copy).

This idea has been discussed before and could still be viable in
the future.

Some references to start browsing:
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-09/0156.shtml
http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-10/0065.shtml
Received on 2013-05-13 17:38:22 CEST