> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 22:38, C. Michael Pilato > <cmpil...@collab.net> wrote: > > Over in another thread[1], a question was raised about the > behavior of 'svn > > switch --relocate' today. Namely, if you run 'svn switch -- > relocate' on a > > subdirectory of a working copy (that is, *not* a "working copy > root"), what > > should the behavior be? > > > > The behavior today is that the subdir and its children -- and > only the > > subdir and its children -- will be relocated. > > > > On the one hand, this is what you'd expect because Subversion has > > historically avoided operating on the parents of operational > targets. > > > +1. > > > On the other hand, is there ever a case where the events that > force someone > > to relocate a subdirectory of their working copy do not also > apply to the > > parents of that subdirectory? > > > > Should such commands relocate the whole working copy, from its > root down? > > > Should they simply complain that you've not targeted the root of > the working > > copy, and prescribe doing exactly that? > My opinion that best way is forbidding relocating subdirectory > working > copy, since it's proven to broke parent working copy. > > As far I remember we have the same behavior for svn upgrade now.
I think the biggest problem here is that the working copy "root" doesn't necessarily equate to the project "root" or any logical root. So, someone could have checked out a sub-folder of a project and while that becomes the working copy "root" it isn't the project "root". Tools like git and hg make it pretty obvious what the root of a project/repository is. Basically everything happens in reference to the root folder of the repository no matter what your pwd is. For example, a merge happens in the full repo not just the sub-folder you are in. Are there any plans to have some way to indicate a "project root" in svn 1.7? Or, will it work the same way... we will know the working copy root but not necessarily the project/repository root. Having this might help with sub-tree merges as well as the relocate issue being talked about above. BOb
