Am Mittwoch, den 08.12.2010, 15:06 +0100 schrieb Ludwig, Michael: > > > I don't understand this behaviour. I expect an error message. > > > That's actually perfectly analogous to the behaviour of the unix > > cp command, when copying directories: > > > So svn's cp behaviour is simply based on the standard behaviour > > of cp. > Buf if you call the svn copy a third time it will throw an error and does not change anything in the repo.
Futher calls of "cp -r src dest" do not result in a error message and anything in src will be copied to dest/src all the time. > And there is no special treatment for branches/ or tags/, they're > just like any other directory, even though they probably have > special meaning to most users. > > Michael Yes, the trunk/tags/branches is logical concept. To avoid changes of existing tags I'll use "svn info" to check if my destination tag directory exists and abort if it does, otherwise i do the the svn copy. Cheers Michael