Re: Takeover Take 2 Was: Re: the 'takeover' feature

[Molle Bestefich <mo...@gmail.com>]

Mark Phippard wrote:
> > I don't want that.  I want the file to show as deleted locally ("!" in
> > output from "svn status").  Later, I can choose whether to add the file
> > locally (svn revert filename) or delete the file in the repository (svn
> > delete filename ; svn commit filename).
>
> I think it would have to be a different subcommand to work that way, and
> historically there has been resistance to add new subcommands.  As long as
> this is part of the checkout command, I cannot see that being acceptable
> behavior.

If 'svn co --takeover' is not good enough and it really does warrant a
new subcommand, then perhaps people will just need to get over it and
add one.

What Alan outlines sounds much cleaner and much more useful, even if
it does require a new subcommand.

(I'm quite biased since I'm using Subversion for purposes where Alan's
approach would be perfect, and the checkout-files-too approach would
be totally useless.  But I also think that the
no-touch-anything-but-.svn approach is cleaner too, objectively
speaking..)

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