Re: Deduce the server URL from the current directory inside the working copy

Daniel Widenfalk to Anton Shepelev:

>>I find it mildly annoying to type the full path
>>within a repository for server-side file opera-
>>tions, such as 'delete' and 'copy'. Observe that,
>>being on Windows, I must use quotes in order to
>>escape the caret character:
>>
>> svn rm "^/A/B/C/file.txt"
>>
>>Is there a way to avoid the entry of the full path
>>when invoking this command from A/B/C/ in a work-
>>ing copy? In other words, I should like to have
>>some syntax that told SVN to use the full sever-
>>side path of a file using the current directory
>>within a working copy. For example, instead of
>>writing:
>>
>> svn rm "^/A/B/C/file.txt"
>>
>>I could:
>>
>> cd Work/A/B/C
>> svn rm "^^file.txt"
>
>On Windows you'd use a double-carret to quote it,
>i.e:
>
>$ svn rm -m "fancy message goes here" ^^/A/B/C/file.txt

Thank you.

>Could you explain why you'd want to do a server-
>side operation on something which is locally acces-
>sible? I.e. why not do?
>
>$ cd A/B/C
>$ svn rm file.txt
>$ svn commit -m "Another fancy message"

To save time and HDD load, easier to simplify the
use of server-side 'svn info' e.g. to view lock in-
formation, &c. 'svn ls' kind of does it already...

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