Markus Schaber wrote (in thread "controversial issues in the tracker"): > 4154 svn add foo foo complains > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4154 > > This issue suggests removing duplicates in the argument list of "svn > add". The example was the command line > svn add f* *o > which lead to errors because the file "foo" was matched twice. > > The discussion showed that there is no consensus on the correct behavior: > http://thread.gmane.org/iz4...@subversion.tigris.org > > Problems were that this could easily paper over typos in the filenames, and > the > consistency between commands ("svn revert" currently doesn't error > out on duplicate targets, while "svn cat" should not eliminate > duplicates, as that will change semantics).
I think the issue reported is too narrow: if we are going to consider making a change here we should consider the behaviour of all the subcommands not just 'add'. > As there is an easy workaround of using "--force", my personal > suggestion is to set this issue to "won't fix". The linked email thread ends with Daniel (the original issue reporter, cc'd) writing "Anyway, I won't pursue it." which suggests we can set it to "won't fix". - Julian
