Julian Foad <julian.f...@wandisco.com> writes: >> - * @a to is the path to the directory where you wish to create the exported >> - * tree. >> + * When exporting a directory @a to is the path to the directory where >> + * you wish to create the exported tree, when exporting a file it is >> + * the path of the file that will be created. If @a to is the empty >> + * path the name of the file/directory in the repository will be used. > > I'm not sure that last sentence is true for a directory, only for a > file.
It describes the command line client behaviour, and the client doesn't distinguish files/directories when calling svn_client_export5. > I think this doc string may need to explain more subtleties to the total > behaviour, but I haven't quite grokked it all. For example: does it > make any difference whether the specified path already exists on disk? > For a dir, is the exported tree's root created *at* or *below* the > specified dir? There is a difference between files and directories, files overwrite while directories give an error saying "use --force". -- Philip
