#89 ch09: svn options: --strict, --targets & switch

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: chris...@gmail.com
Originally owned by: cmpilato

Subversion 1.6.x & book [r3765].

The --strict option isn't really documented in the book.
`svn help propget` provides more info, but why isn't that info in the book?
[At least it's not by the '--strict' option (non-)description or the 'svn propget' description.]

The description of --targets in the book contradicts the description from `svn help commit` etc.
Can the file contain any arguments?  Just file paths?  URLs?  With PEG revs?  Quoted or un-quoted?  How are files/arguments delimited?  Just line breaks?  Does it support comment lines?  Empty lines?  Escape sequences?

For "svn switch URL[@PEGREV] [PATH]" the book states "updates your working copy to point to a new URL".  OK.  However, both the book & `svn help switch` also state:
    "This is the [Subversion] way to move a working copy to a new branch"
Which, to me, implies that the working copy is (some how) moved and a new branch created in the repository.  (Which I know is not the case.)
A clearer replacement for the second sentence might be:
    "This is the [Subversion] way to change a working copy to use a branch".
or
    "This is the [Subversion] way to change a working copy to reference a branch".
or
    "This is the [Subversion] way to change a working copy to work on a branch".

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: cmpilato

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Summary: ch09: svn options: --strict, --targets & switch
Labels: Milestone-en-1.6

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: cmpilato

Pushing this off as not-strictly-needed-for-1.6-coverage.  (Trying to get to the 1.7 work sooner rather than later.)

Labels: Milestone-en-1.7

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: cmpilato

In [r4062], I changed the 'svn switch' line to read:

   "This is the Subversion way to make a working copy begin tracking a new branch."

I also updated the --targets description to hopefully answer the questions posed, and the 'svn propget' Description to mention what it is that --strict really does.

(I also backported this to the 1.6 version in [r4063].)

Labels: -Milestone-en-1.7 Milestone-en-1.6

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Originally posted by: cmpilato

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Status: Fixed