On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 05:36:34AM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> Normally, 'svn mv' does two things: (a) rename the file on disk, >> (b) record in .svn/ that the rename had happened. As of 1.8, we allow >> the user to tell 'svn mv' to do only (b). We don't expose that ability >> in the standard command-line client, but it's available to API users >> (such as tortoisesvn and bindings scripts) via the 'metadata_only' >> parameter to svn_client_move7(). > > I've been thinking that allowing users to perform a metadata-only move > with 'svn mv' might save people running into this common rookie mistake > some hair... If they look at 'svn help mv' to find this new hypothetical > --meta-data-only option, that is. (We could re-use the --record-only > option from 'svn merge' as a name.)
+1. Sounds like a good idea to me. -- Johan
