Re: [PATCH] 'svn' should not silently ignore a peg revision

2011-06-29 Thread C. Michael Pilato
On 06/29/2011 08:07 AM, Julian Foad wrote: > My question is about this case: > > $ svn copy SOURCE TARGET@HEAD > > This case falls under the last sentence of point (C) above. Issue #3651 > [3] claims that the 'HEAD' peg should be ignored in this case, and that > claim is explicitly tested by c

Re: [PATCH] 'svn' should not silently ignore a peg revision

2011-06-29 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Julian Foad wrote on Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 13:07:01 +0100: > My question is about this case: > > $ svn copy SOURCE TARGET@HEAD > > This case falls under the last sentence of point (C) above. Issue #3651 > [3] claims that the 'HEAD' peg should be ignored in this case, and that > claim is explici

[PATCH] 'svn' should not silently ignore a peg revision

2011-06-29 Thread Julian Foad
I believe we should make 'svn' reject any peg revision specifier on an argument where it doesn't use one. This is a rather long email to record some of the details behind my reasoning, and a question mainly for Stefan Sperling about issue #3651 [3]. First some context. $ svn cat ^/trunk/readme@1