Re: Fwd: vcs-svn and friends

From: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 23, 2011, 13:27 UTC
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com> 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.

I think now that this commit should go separately if at all. Especially considering my other activity on fast-import (and thus possible merge conflicts) that isn't strictly necessary for vcs-svn and friends.