Paolo Bonzini wrote:
More formally, you can say that any file in the checkout is made of
BASE/DIR/filename where BASE is the URL passed to the latest `svn co'
or `svn switch' command.
The current SVN working copy philosophy (the same as CVS's, by the way)
is that every working copy directory is self-contained. If we start
recording command parameters in the working copy, we break that property.
Anyway, there are other ways of achieving this behaviour that are more
friendly to SVN's concept; they'd been discussed in the past and are
being discussed now on the SVN dev list, but (unlike simple root URL
expansion) aren't trivial to implement, so don't expect any changes in
this area by the day after tomorrow.
(I don't want to discuss these things in more detail on this list; SVN
design discussions belong on the SVN dev list, and duplicating them here
would be counter-productive.
Of course, anyone is welcome to participate in discussions on our dev list.)
-- Brane
