On 07/23/2010 03:43 PM, Bob Archer wrote: > 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.
I don't follow how the knowledge of the project root really matters in the scope of this discussion. This type of relocate operation is done not when you want to switch a working copy directory so that it reflects some other repository tree, but when you want to do a working copy metadata rewrite to account for a total change in the repository root URL for the project. So, not: # I'd like to work on the 'some-branch' branch now. svn switch wc ^/branches/some-branch But # IT has switched from svnserve- to Apache-based SVN hosting. svn switch --relocate svn://server/svn/repo http://server/svn/repo wc However, we've discussed numerous times the value of having some indication of the root of the project branch -- useful for preventing subtree merges, useful for possibly storing branch management policies, etc. No, that's not planned for 1.7. But I think it's definitely something we should explore for future releases. -- C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
