Julian Foad wrote on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 21:11:55 +0100:
> Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> 
> > Would having an explicit
> > 
> >     Skipped duplicated target 'foo'
> > 
> > notification address your concern?
> 
> It would mitigate the negative consequences.  At least the user would then 
> know they'd made a mistake.  Still lacking any positive justification, so 
> -0.25 :-)
> 

The positive justification was that if we interpret 'svn add foo bar' as
'add foo and bar', we might want to define the semantics as a set --- in
which case erroring out on 'svn add foo foo' is wrong.

Anyway, I won't pursue it.

> - Julian
> 
> 
> > Julian Foad wrote on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 15:47:34 +0100:
> >>  In the issue, you give the example "$svn add f* *o", and then
> >> claim svn should eliminate duplicate args for you.  But why
> >> should it?
> [...]
> >>  In short, -0.5.

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