That text is from the 1.5 section of the book. 1.5 is over 4 years old, so current behavior might be different...
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Mark Eichin <eic...@gmail.com> wrote: > Huh. http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svn.c.copy.html > actually has a Note: > "You can only copy files within a single repository. Subversion does > not support cross-repository copying." > > I guess that means that the bug is that it doesn't check uuids and > actually *enforce* this; I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd be > surprised to learn of this constraint - especially since merge doesn't > have such a warning (and in fact cross-repo cherry-picking with svn > merge is actually kind of important...) > > > > -- > _Mark_ <eic...@thok.org> <eic...@gmail.com> > -- uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy http://www.uberSVN.com/
