On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Michael Kessler <kessler.mich...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > during tests with hudson my release build script was accidentally called > more than once. The script calls svn copy too. > > 1. svn copy file:///var/repo/prj/trunk file:///var/repo/prj/tags/V1 -m > "created V1" > > In the Repo: > ../prj/tags/V1/test.txt > OK > > 2. svn copy file:///var/repo/prj/trunk file:///var/repo/prj/tags/V1 -m > "created V1" > > In the Repo: > ../prj/tags/V1/trunk/text.txt ???? > > I don't understand this behaviour. I expect an error message. > > 3. 2. svn copy file:///var/repo/prj/trunk file:///var/repo/prj/tags/V1 > -m "created V1" > > :~/svn: Path tags/V1/trunk already exists > > I tried it with: > > Windows XP SP3 > CollabNet Subversion Command-Line Client v1.6.15 > > Ubuntu 10.04 > svn Version 1.6.6 (r40053)
That's actually perfectly analogous to the behaviour of the unix cp command, when copying directories: ---------- 8< ------------- bash-3.00$ mkdir test bash-3.00$ ls -l total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 4096 Dec 8 12:11 test bash-3.00$ cp -r test target bash-3.00$ ls -l total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 4096 Dec 8 12:11 target drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 4096 Dec 8 12:11 test bash-3.00$ ls -l target total 0 bash-3.00$ cp -r test target bash-3.00$ ls -l total 16 drwxr-xr-x 3 user group 4096 Dec 8 12:11 target drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 4096 Dec 8 12:11 test bash-3.00$ ls -l target total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 user group 4096 Dec 8 12:11 test ---------- 8< ------------- So svn's cp behaviour is simply based on the standard behaviour of cp. Cheers, -- Johan
