Re: Export behaving badly

Daniel Berlin <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:07:28 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel,gmane.mail.eyebrowse.user
Message-ID <1129565248.25570.103.camel__10014.6259800114$1129565699$gmane$org@linux.site>
> >
> Oh come on. :)

Yeah, i'll admit it, i was lawyering you :)

> 
> I'm merely suggesting that the solution to "export a single file" should 
> be the same as the solution to "checkout a single file".


I don't disagree, it just bothers me to remove functionality users may
be using (though i guess i've already argued they don't like it :P).

> 
> In other words, if someone takes the time to teach export to create a 
> directory and put a single file in it, then we might as well do 
> something similar for checkout (fixing co -N first, of course). Until 
> then, I'd rather have export behave like checkout; if for no other 
> reason than it's easier to explain export as "checkout without creating 
> the .svn directories".

Yeah yeah.