KIO and KFM and copy/move/delete operations

[Rajko Albrecht]

Hi,
i'm the author of kdesvn a native subversion client for kde. Inside this 
project I spoke with the authors of KIO::svn that I integrate both 'cause 
them do similiar things.

So I found following problem:
When doing a copy or move (not simple rename via F2) on directory kfm does 
following:

1. create new dir(s) inside target directory, the whole tree
2. copy each single file via a copy/move call to KIO

That is a ... problem to a logging KIO like KIO::svn. Why?
Each operation creates a revision on repository. I had the test case of an 
image-gallery with more than 500 entries. eg.:
first I had asked for each operation for a commit-message. After 10 I canceld 
and disabled asking for log. Tried again. Result: Revision count in 
repository jumped up over more than 500 revision numbers.

May question now: 
Is there any trick to let kfm do the job the KIO itself? 

Eg: 

 fol1 --- subfol1
       |
       |- subfol2
            |- subfol3
                 |
                 |- <lot if items>

and kfm just call

copy("fol1","to new dir");
rename("fol1","to new dir");


and not
mkdir("newdir/fol1")
mkdir("newdir/fol1/subfol1")

and so on?

cu

Rajko
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