What are the acceptable cases for using svn cp? Superficially, it can be used for creating branches or tags, and indirectly as part of a move/rename operation, and restoring a deleted file/dir, but are they any other justified usages?
What we see a lot of, and are considering blocking going forward, is people svn cp'ing files between branches. For instance, you are on trunk, and want a file that has been added in branch 1.1... instead of merging you just svn cp the file or subdir you are want. This is a kind of targeted cherry picking, but without mergeinfo. Of course, you get a tree conflict when you come to merge correctly. So my question is, is the above an acceptable usage? Presumably this seems much easier to users than doing a merge. cheers, jamie -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/when-to-use-svn-copy-tp30748502p30748502.html Sent from the Subversion Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
