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[Martin Pool]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 10:52 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> | On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 19:49 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> | all unix users.  If I may make a suggestion, I would say make rename and
> | move be synonyms.  That way, people from unix backgrounds will use move
> | for everything, and people from other backgrounds will use move to move
> | and rename to rename.
> 
> I tend to agree.  While it's true that an RCS cares whether an operation
> is a move or a rename, I don't think users should have to care.  Unless
> there's some further issue I'm not seeing.

The issue is that unix mv behaves differently depending on whether the
destination is a directory or not.  Some people, even some kernel
hackers, find this annoying:

  % svn rename foo bar
  Oops, now I have bar/foo!

However it seems everyone here feels differently, so perhaps there
should just be a mv that works like unix.

There is no technical difficulty, it's just a usability question.

-- 
Martin

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