Re: SVN compatibility question

On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 05:36:34AM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Normally, 'svn mv' does two things: (a) rename the file on disk,
> (b) record in .svn/ that the rename had happened. As of 1.8, we allow
> the user to tell 'svn mv' to do only (b). We don't expose that ability
> in the standard command-line client, but it's available to API users
> (such as tortoisesvn and bindings scripts) via the 'metadata_only'
> parameter to svn_client_move7().

I've been thinking that allowing users to perform a metadata-only move
with 'svn mv' might save people running into this common rookie mistake
some hair... If they look at 'svn help mv' to find this new hypothetical
--meta-data-only option, that is. (We could re-use the --record-only
option from 'svn merge' as a name.)
Received on 2016-04-01 09:32:54 CEST