Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-23 Thread Daniel Becroft
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 7:16 PM Grierson, David wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Branko Čibej [mailto:br...@wandisco.com] > > Sent: 23 July 2015 07:59 > > To: users@subversion.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn r

Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-23 Thread Branko Čibej
On 23.07.2015 11:15, Grierson, David wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Branko Čibej [mailto:br...@wandisco.com] >> Sent: 23 July 2015 07:59 >> To: users@subversion.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert >>

RE: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-23 Thread Grierson, David
> -Original Message- > From: Branko Čibej [mailto:br...@wandisco.com] > Sent: 23 July 2015 07:59 > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert > > On 22.07.2015 15:51, Bert Huijben wrote: > > > >>

Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-22 Thread Branko Čibej
rs@subversion.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert >> >> Markus Schaber wrote on Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 13:01:09 +: >>> All other commands need a --force or other explicit user decision to >>> override user changed data, but

RE: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-22 Thread Bert Huijben
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d...@daniel.shahaf.name] > Sent: woensdag 22 juli 2015 13:43 > To: Markus Schaber > Cc: Grierson, David ; d...@subversion.apache.org; 牛 > 暁冬 ; users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Feature request: Save the old

Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-22 Thread Ivan Zhakov
On 21 July 2015 at 11:38, Andreas Stieger wrote: > Hello, > > David Grierson wrote: >> > "svn revert" will delete the local changes and nowhere to find, which >> > is dangerous. >> > I suggest the default behaiver should be save the local changed >> > file(if any) to "filename.local" and do the re

Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-22 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Markus Schaber wrote on Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 13:01:09 +: > All other commands need a --force or other explicit user decision to > override user changed data, but the whole purpose of the "svn revert" > command is to undo local changes - putting a --force option or > something similar seems lik

Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-21 Thread Eric Johnson
Seems to me that stashing the before-reverted copies could go into some "recycle bin" / "trash" folder underneath the .svn folder at the root of the working copy. And by default, the client could clean out files time-stamped over a month old, so it doesn't perpetually grow. Cleanup could happen on

Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-21 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag Grierson, David, am Dienstag, 21. Juli 2015 um 17:48 schrieben Sie: > If you don't specify prompt. > If you do specify then you're saying one way or the other which you > explicitly want. That way you still force millions of users to behave differently now because one user made a mista

Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-21 Thread Andreas Mohr
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:06:06AM +0200, OBones wrote: > Grierson, David wrote: > >I completely understand that the action of sending to the Recycle Bin (in > >TortoiseSVN) is very system specific. > > > >To simply rename the item being reverted as $item.$backupSuffix before then > >restoring th

RE: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-21 Thread Grierson, David
> -Original Message- > From: Thorsten Schöning [mailto:tschoen...@am-soft.de] > Sent: 21 July 2015 17:08 > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert > > That way you still force millions of users to behave diff

RE: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-21 Thread Grierson, David
> -Original Message- > From: Thorsten Schöning [mailto:tschoen...@am-soft.de] > Sent: 21 July 2015 16:09 > To: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert > > > I would very much prefer if this could be an option th

Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-21 Thread Thorsten Schöning
Guten Tag OBones, am Dienstag, 21. Juli 2015 um 11:06 schrieben Sie: > I would very much prefer if this could be an option that is not enabled > by default. +1 I do revert frequently while merging branches and testing things and would hate it to have to additionally manually remove files which I

RE: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-21 Thread Grierson, David
> -Original Message- > From: Markus Schaber [mailto:m.scha...@codesys.com] > Sent: 21 July 2015 14:01 > To: Grierson, David; d...@subversion.apache.org > Cc: 牛暁冬; users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: AW: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert > ... > I'm not really sure what t

RE: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-21 Thread Grierson, David
Apologies for the previous top-posting ... I hate Outlook sometimes. > -Original Message- > From: OBones [mailto:obo...@free.fr] > Sent: 21 July 2015 10:06 > To: Grierson, David; Andreas Stieger > Cc: 牛暁冬; users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Feature request: Save

Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-21 Thread OBones
Grierson, David wrote: I completely understand that the action of sending to the Recycle Bin (in TortoiseSVN) is very system specific. To simply rename the item being reverted as $item.$backupSuffix before then restoring the pristine item is presumably not that system specific? Having this fu

RE: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-21 Thread Grierson, David
age- > From: Andreas Stieger [mailto:andreas.stie...@gmx.de] > Sent: 21 July 2015 09:38 > To: Grierson, David > Cc: 牛暁冬; users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert > > Hello, > > David Grierson wrote: > > > &qu

Re: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-21 Thread Andreas Stieger
Hello, David Grierson wrote: > > "svn revert" will delete the local changes and nowhere to find, which > > is dangerous. > > I suggest the default behaiver should be save the local changed > > file(if any) to "filename.local" and do the revert. > > > That's actually not a bad idea ... I've been bu

RE: Feature request: Save the old file when svn revert

2015-07-21 Thread Grierson, David
That's actually not a bad idea ... I've been burnt by this one a couple of times myself. Probably worth raising it with the d...@subversion.apache.org list to see if it's something that they've considered previously. David. -- David Grierson - SDLC Tools Specialist Sky Broadcasting - Customer B