Branko ?ibej wrote: >On 01.04.2016 10:21, Johan Corveleyn wrote: >> 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. > >Yup, and ditto for 'svn copy'; I know that SmartSVN has an option to >find and fix up such mistakes, and apparently that's a very popular feature.
TortoiseSVN too -- Lorenz
