On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Harald Kirsch <harald.kir...@raytion.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > there is the '^' notation to denote the repository root URL. In a setting > where many projects are hosted in one repository, however, "^/branches" does > not end up in a project's branches. Rather something like > > ^/somedir/someproject/branches > > is needed. > > Assuming I have a working copy of ^/somedir/someproject/trunk, it would be > great to address the repository relative to that URL. Say '%' would be the > shortcut, then I could > > svn list %/../branches > svn copy . %/../branches/mycoolfeature > svn switch . %/../branches/mycoolfeature > > Use of '..' seems to be forbidden in repository URLs, but some syntax should > be possible to address this. > > Is this a feature request to put in Jira? Or is this actually possible > already and I just could not find it?
Sounds like an interesting idea (not sure about the exact syntax, but that can be worked out later). I think it would be useful to have a shorthand for "url corresponding to the working copy root", and being able to get at least siblings of that (using '..', or through some other special syntax). I don't think this is already a requested feature in JIRA, so please go ahead and do so, so this doesn't get forgotten. But as a second step I would suggest you start a discussion about this on the dev@ list (these issues usually don't implement themselves, so it helps if someone at least drives the discussion about what the feature should look like). I suppose other devs might come with all kinds of considerations ... it could be tricky to do well. -- Johan
