On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 04:45:29PM +0300, Anton Shepelev wrote: > Hello, all > > Why does even the basic sync-merging require that the user > specify the source URL, as in: > > svn merge ^/project/trunk > > I think this requirement is redundant because SVN know > exactly from which original original directory the branch > was created by svn cp. Will you consider simplifying the > basic merge syntax to: > > svn merge > svn merge <local_path> > > so that SVN shall supply the origin URL automatically? Or > am I wrong, and my proposal makes no sense?
Recall that SVN cannot know whether a copy operation is supposed to create a new branch, or to copy a folder within the scope of a branch. This distinction exists only in the human mind, not in the tool itself. Also recall that users have the ability to check out a working copy from any level of the tree. When we combine your idea with the above two aspects of SVN's design, we run into a problem. Example: svn mkdir ^/trunk svn mkdir ^/trunk/dir1 svn copy ^/trunk ^/branches/mybranch svn copy ^/mybranch/dir1 ^/mybranch/dir2 svn checkout ^/mybranch/dir2 my-dir2-working-copy cd my-dir2-working-copy svn merge What will happen now?
