From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 23:40:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Fwd: vcs-svn and friends
Message-ID: <20110921234008.GA23439@elie>
In-Reply-To: <CA+gfSn9KVN2iDCevd0s+TjYHNupDez8NiKZycP3pgBCkYiraFQ@mail.gmail.com>

Dmitry Ivankov wrote:

>>  - 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