On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 20:50 +0200, Alan Barrett wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Julian Foad wrote: > > the as-yet-unavailable "svn mv --retrospectively" command [1], > > Is this is just a special case of the as-yet-unavailable > "--metadata-only" option, which would tell svn to adjust its metadata as > if some operation were performed, but not to touch anything outside the > ".svn" directory (or wherever metadata is kept)?
Yes, that's basically what I meant, just aimed at the "retrospective" subset of the possible use cases. (For anyone not familiar with the history: neither of these options is a planned feature and neither of them yet has a well defined meaning; they are just made-up option names that are convenient reminders for talking about some ideas that have been suggested.) - Julian
