[jira] [Commented] (SVN-4876) Cannot change level within SVN repo

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Daniel Shahaf commented on SVN-4876:
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1. I've already asked you once: Do not make up your own terminology.  A working copy is not a repository.

2. The error message doesn't match the prose just above it.

3. Regarding the first of your two use-cases, when we take the rare step of gating a previously-default behind a --flag, which is a form of backwards incompatibility, we generally have good reasons to do so.  Proposing that we make that flag the default because you need it in one use-case without even considering counter-arguments is not a productive approach to collaborative design.

4. «svn switch» does not work across repositories (and bear in mind that when I say "repository" I mean repository), so the proposed "solution" won't work for the second case at all.

5. Per project policy, do not open issues without blessing from a project committer.

As far as the cross-repository case is concerned, this issue should be closed as invalid.

As far as the intra-repository case is concerned, in light of the fact that you have opened this issue after I asked you on users@ to justify adding this flag and in this issue you did not provide such justification but simply repeated yourself, I regrettably determine that you are spamming us.  I am therefore closing this issue and directing you to continue discussion on users@ per project policy.


> Cannot change level within SVN repo
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SVN-4876
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4876
>             Project: Subversion
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: svnpubsub
>         Environment: Scenario:
> Start with:
> /www/svn.apache.org:  http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/svn/site
> Checks out fine
> Change the site so it is now located here:
> /www/svn.apache.org:  http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/svn/site/publish
> svnwcsub.py fails with:
> svn: E195012: 'https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/sites/lsvn/site/publish' shares no common ancestry with '/www/svn.apache.org'\n"
> A similar issue occurs with changing up a level, e.g. from site/publish to site.
> The solution is to add --ignore-ancestry to the svn switch command.
> This should either be the default, or at least it should be possible to enable it via a command-line flag or configuration option.
>            Reporter: Sebb
>            Priority: Major
>




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