[SVN-1776] copy and mkdir should create intermediate directories

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: libsvn_client
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 04/Mar/04 10:23
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:40
• Resolved: 10/Mar/09 15:22

Description

When tagging something, e.g. tagging:

http://host/repos/trunk

as:

http://host/repos/tags/customer1/r1

...the operation failed.  By looking through logs, I figured out that I had
to make "tags", then "customer1", then "r1".

My branch command was:

svn copy http://host/repos/trunk http://host/repos/tags/customer1/r1 -m "my
log message"

It'd be nice to be able to create intermediate directories when branching like
this?  It's not too bad manually, but a bit of pest to automate.  I've noticed 
as well the "mkdir" can't create intermediate folders either, so when 
operating directly on a URL, you tend to create several auto-committing 
revisions in order to create the required directory structure.

I personally favour maintaining the current behaviour by default, with an 
option like --create-parent-dirs for copy/mkdir for those who wish this 
behaviour.  It could be made a default behaviour if the user's subversion 
config file had some sort of setting to make this the default behaviour.

Original issue reported by cbrown