Joerg Wunsch wrote on Fri, 24 Jan 2020 08:23 +0100: > As Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Could we look for a solution that doesn't involve explicit user input? > > For example, given «svn co $URL $dir», we could search only in > > ancestors that are writable by the current user (in the sense of > > access(W_OK)). That would generally cause the $HOME behaviour Jörg > > proposed, but without special-casing $HOME. > > Sounds reasonable to me.
Moving to dev@ [please drop users@ from follow-ups]. The thread on users@ covered a few topics. The ones I'd like to here concern «svn checkout $URL $dir»'s behaviour of checking whether $dir is part of an existing working copy. It has been suggested that the crawl-up should stop earlier (with "Don't crawl above $HOME" being named as a use-case; see the quoted paragraph for a proposal to achieve that) and that if the crawl-up does find that the checkout would cause an obstruction in an ancestor working copy, it should not error out but merely warn, Thoughts? Cheers, Daniel
