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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: vcs-svn and friends
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:40:08 -0500
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Dmitry Ivankov wrote:

>> =C2=A0- 3bba32e9 ("fast-import: allow top directory as an argument f=
or some
>> =C2=A0 commands"): I'm not sure what the motivation is --- is this j=
ust
>> =C2=A0 about the principle of least surprise, or did it come up in p=
ractice
>> =C2=A0 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 pur=
pose.

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