From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>
Cc: David Michael Barr <davidbarr@google.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: vcs-svn and friends
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:40:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110921234008.GA23439@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+gfSn9KVN2iDCevd0s+TjYHNupDez8NiKZycP3pgBCkYiraFQ@mail.gmail.com>
Dmitry Ivankov wrote:
>> - 3bba32e9 ("fast-import: allow top directory as an argument for some
>> commands"): I'm not sure what the motivation is --- is this just
>> about the principle of least surprise, or did it come up in practice
>> somewhere?
>
> (to ease one's reading, commands are ls, copy and move top directory)
>
> Haven't seen them in practice. It seemed possible with svn import: if there were
> no branches at start, and then someone did svn mv . trunk. But it
> turns out that my
> svn client doesn't allow such move. So more like a least surprise purpose.
With that information in mind, it sounds like a reasonable change in
principle (though I haven't looked over the code at all). Could you
propose a log message explaining it (both the original motivation and
the actual impact)?
Thanks,
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-21 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-15 1:53 Fwd: vcs-svn and friends David Michael Barr
2011-09-15 10:01 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-09-15 13:00 ` Dmitry Ivankov
2011-09-21 23:40 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-09-23 13:27 ` Dmitry Ivankov
2011-09-23 13:29 ` Dmitry Ivankov
2011-09-23 18:45 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-09-15 14:06 ` Stephen Bash
2011-09-15 20:48 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-09-15 21:13 ` Stephen Bash
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