Re: Export behaving badly

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 15:46 +0200, Branko Čibej wrote:
> Daniel Berlin wrote:
> 
> >So i'm converting over some documentation update scripts from gcc.
> >
> >They do the following:
> >
> >Export a bunch of doc files from repo
> >build docs
> >place them somewhere
> >
> >export, unfortunately, behaves differently than checkout.  If you do
> >
> >svn export svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/trunk/gcc/doc/install.texi gcc
> >  
> >
> I think export should simply fail for a single file, just like checkout. 

Checkout fails because it can't currently maintain a working copy
alongside the single file

Export doesn't fail because it doesn't need such a working copy.

Why put restrictions on export that doesn't need to be there?
We actually want to remove this checkout restriction, not propagate it
to other things.

> We have "svn cat" for that.

By this argument, svn export is completely useless. You could make the
directory structure on your own and cat into it one file at a time.

Should we remove export because we have "cat for that", and instead tell
people to script the equivalent?