On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> 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.)
+1. Sounds like a good idea to me.
--
Johan
Received on 2016-04-01 10:22:30 CEST