On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 05:36:34AM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Normally, 'svn mv' does two things: (a) rename the file on disk, > (b) record in .svn/ that the rename had happened. As of 1.8, we allow > the user to tell 'svn mv' to do only (b). We don't expose that ability > in the standard command-line client, but it's available to API users > (such as tortoisesvn and bindings scripts) via the 'metadata_only' > parameter to svn_client_move7().
I've been thinking that allowing users to perform a metadata-only move with 'svn mv' might save people running into this common rookie mistake some hair... If they look at 'svn help mv' to find this new hypothetical --meta-data-only option, that is. (We could re-use the --record-only option from 'svn merge' as a name.)
