From: Dmitry Ivankov Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:29:20 GMT Subject: Re: Fwd: vcs-svn and friends Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Dmitry Ivankov wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:00 PM, 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. > 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. And the same for 3bba32e9^ "fast-import: be saner with temporary trees", which is only needed for 3bba32e9.