> Automation helps eliminate the silly mistakes that come with manual, repetitive work. We could have easily gone around asking "Why didn't SVN prevent us from

> Automation helps eliminate the silly mistakes that come with manual, repetitive work. We could have easily gone around asking "Why didn't SVN prevent us from deleting trunk?" Do both? Question bad design and then do whatever you can to work around it. As an example, that's why flags like this make sense, even if it's a pretty specific use case and there won't be many people using that option at all, preventing stupid default behavior is a good idea: https://superuser.com/a/742735 https://superuser.com/a/742735