renaming twice a modified resource

[Garret Wilson <ga...@globalmentor.com>]

Everyone,

This may be the conceptual rename problem I was trying to remember 
earlier. I just ran into it again (svn 0.20.0 Apache 2.44).

I have a file named ServletUtilities.java. I decide that it would be 
better named GlobalMentorWebUtilities.java:

svn ren my\path\ServletUtilities.java 
my\path\GlobalMentorWebUtilities.java --force

So far so good. But then after more modifications I realize that this 
name is to unwieldy---I'd rather it be just WebUtilities.java:

svn ren my\path\GlobalMentorWebUtilities.java my\path\WebUtilities.java 
--force

This gives me:

svn: Trying to use an unsupported feature
svn: Cannot copy or move 'my/path/GlobalMentorWebUtilities.java' -- it's 
not in the repository yet, perhaps because it is a copy or is inside a 
copied tree.
Try committing first.

I could revert the earlier move and then move again, but then my 
modifications would be lost. Do I have to commit the first move before I 
can move again? This brings me back to my "What if I'm on an airplane?" 
scenario.

(Luckily, I'm in a T-Mobile HotSpot Starbucks, so I'll try co commit, 
now... yep, now I'm able to move again after first committing.)

Garret


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Re: renaming twice a modified resource

[Philip Martin <ph...@codematters.co.uk>]

Garret Wilson <ga...@globalmentor.com> writes:

> svn: Trying to use an unsupported feature
> svn: Cannot copy or move 'my/path/GlobalMentorWebUtilities.java' --
> it's not in the repository yet, perhaps because it is a copy or is
> inside a copied tree.
> 
> Try committing first.
> 
> I could revert the earlier move and then move again, but then my
> modifications would be lost. Do I have to commit the first move before
> I can move again? This brings me back to my "What if I'm on an
> airplane?" scenario.

I think that's ssue 756.

-- 
Philip Martin

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