Hi all,
as suggested by Johan, I dare to drop a feature suggestion onto this
mailing list.
In a multi project repository, ^/trunk and ^/branches do not usually
point to the trunk and branches of a project. Rather something like
^/somedir/someproject/branches
is needed.
Given a working copy of ^/somedir/someproject/trunk, it would be great
to address the repository relative to that URL. Say '%' would be the
shortcut, then I could
svn list %/../branches
svn copy . %/../branches/mycoolfeature
svn switch . %/../branches/mycoolfeature
svn merge %/../../trunk
Use of '..' seems to be forbidden in repository URLs, but some syntax
should be possible to address this. %% for %/.. and %%% for %/../.. is
one thing that springs to mind, surely others can come up with even
better suggestions.
Rationale:
The sequence of commands shown above motivated me to suggest this
feature. Branching and merging would get much easier for multi-project
repositories, where ^ does not easily lead to trunk and branches.
Alternative Idea:
If trunk/tags/versions/branches where not just conventions, an
alternative would be to have a notation point to the "root of the
project", i.e. the parent of trunk and branches. But I would not know
how to sanely define it for working copies that have neither of
trunk/branches/tags/versions in their repository path's ancestry.
Harald
