When I "svn rename" one or a few files,
svn mv foo.txt foo2.txt
svn mv dir/bar.txt bar.txt
and want to commit just these files (not a whole subtree), I can write
the new filenames easily by using the shell's filename completion or
copying them from a directory listing.
svn commit foo2.txt bar.txt
But svn currently complains that as these files are moved I also need to
list their *old* names.
svn: E200009: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: E200009: Cannot commit '/home/julianfoad/tmp/svn/mv-commit/wc/foo2'
because it was moved from '/home/julianfoad/tmp/svn/mv-commit/wc/foo'
which is not part of the commit; both sides of the move must be
committed together
Ugh!
svn commit foo2.txt bar.txt foo.txt dir/bar.txt
(succeeds)
Is it time to make 'svn' offer to find and commit the corresponding old
names, without making me do it manually?
I was doing this in my real-life filing of documents at home the other
day, and it seemed unnecessarily obstructive and cumbersome.
(There are several details we can bikeshed about what it should do
exactly -- such as what if we only specify the old path, and should it
prompt interactively, or need a new option, or do it by default -- but
first do we agree that a change in this direction would be good?)
- Julian
