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Re: Fwd: vcs-svn and friends

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 21, 2011, 23:40 UTC
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Dmitry Ivankov wrote:
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>>  - 3bba32e9 ("fast-import: allow top directory as an argument for some
>>   commands"): I'm not sure what the motivation is --- is this just
>>   about the principle of least surprise, or did it come up in practice
>>   somewhere?
>
> (to ease one's reading, commands are ls, copy and move top directory)
>
> Haven't seen them in practice. It seemed possible with svn import: if there were
> no branches at start, and then someone did svn mv . trunk. But it
> turns out that my
> svn client doesn't allow such move. So more like a least surprise purpose.

With that information in mind, it sounds like a reasonable change in principle (though I haven't looked over the code at all). Could you propose a log message explaining it (both the original motivation and the actual impact)?

Thanks, Jonathan

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