The 1.6 book has the same Note text, as does http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.ref.svn.c.copy.html - so at least it hasn't been documented any differently in that time. (So it at least appears that cross-repo cherry-picking isn't an intentionally-supported use case...)
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Hyrum K Wright <hyrum.wri...@wandisco.com> wrote: > That text is from the 1.5 section of the book. 1.5 is over 4 years > old, so current behavior might be different... > > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Mark Eichin <eic...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Huh. http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svn.c.copy.html >> actually has a Note: >> "You can only copy files within a single repository. Subversion does >> not support cross-repository copying." >> >> I guess that means that the bug is that it doesn't check uuids and >> actually *enforce* this; I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd be >> surprised to learn of this constraint - especially since merge doesn't >> have such a warning (and in fact cross-repo cherry-picking with svn >> merge is actually kind of important...) >> >> >> >> -- >> _Mark_ <eic...@thok.org> <eic...@gmail.com> >> > > > > -- > > uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy > http://www.uberSVN.com/ > -- _Mark_ <eic...@thok.org> <eic...@gmail.com>
