On 01/04/2013 05:44 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 05:29:30PM -0500, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>    "--cl=none" -- introduces a reserved changelist name "none" that
>>                   someone, somewhere might already be really using.
> 
> Is this really a problem?
> 
> We're bumping the working copy format anyway for 1.8, so the new
> format could start reserving the 'none' changelist. An existing 'none'
> changelist could be detected by 'svn upgrade'. It could then ask the user
> to rename the changelist before upgrading, or even prompt for a new
> name which makes upgrading easier if 1.7 isn't installed anymore.
> 
> I like --cl none much better than --cl "".

Oooh... that's a sneaky idea.  I rather like it!  Doesn't really hope folks
who have scripted processes which involve a changelist named "none", of
course, but we may be well into "edge-case" territory, here.

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C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net>
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