Branko Čibej wrote on Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 14:22:31 +0200: > On 28.10.2016 09:02, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 02:49:04AM +0200, b...@qqmail.nl wrote: > >> In the summary I don’t see the support for restartability of a broken > >> checkout. See the documentation of svn checkout in the svn-book. > >> (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.ref.svn.c.checkout.html) > > Yes, we'll need to make checkout work automatically in that case. > > > > For example, inside the client library(!) the checkout code path could ask > > if the target dir is already a working copy root (svn_wc__is_wcroot()) > > and if so get its url (svn_wc__node_get_repos_info()) and then compare > > that url to the (canonicalized version of) the URL which was passed on > > the command line. If those match, proceed without require the force flag. > > > > That's the idea -- I don't know if this would be straightforward to > > implement right now, or if something would get in the way of this. > > > It's never that simple ... you'd have to compare repos UUID, not URL, > and possibly do an automatic relocate if the UUIDs match but the URLs don't.
Or perhaps compare UUID and the repos-root-relative URL, so it'd be possible to resume a checkout using a different URL to the same directory, but not using a URL to another directory.
