Re: Automatically supply the origin URL in svn merge

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 01:10:25AM +0300, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> Daniel Shahaf:
> > However, I can also see circumstances in which this smartness
> > could be counter-productive:
> >
> > 1. In repository restructurings, such as running «svn merge» in a
> > working copy of ^/thebarproject/trunk after that project had been
> > renamed from ^/thefooproject/trunk. Under the proposal, that
> > would attempt to merge from ^/thefooproject/trunk, and it's not
> > clear to me that that's a more useful behaviour than just
> > throwing a usage error.
>
> You say the project was renamed, which means that `svn cp' was not
> involved.

Renames are modelled as copy+delete in SVN.

Cheers,
Stefan
Received on 2020-03-26 10:45:25 CET