RE: Re: Export behaving badly

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. We have "svn cat" for that.
> 
> -- Brane
> 

An alternative would be to check the final argument for a trailing / or \, and, if it's present, treat it as an indication that the user wants the export to go into that directory.

-D.