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Re: cmd line stuff (was: CVS update: ...)

From: pohl <pohl_at_screaming.org>
Date: 2000-10-19 00:28:51 CEST

> Bruce Korb wrote:
>
> > That leaves you with a rather interesting dilemma:
> >
> > svn -x foo bar
> >
> > Which is the subcommand, "foo" or "bar"?
> > Well, it depends. For the "foo" subcommand, -x happens to
> > require an argument, but for the "bar" subcommand, it does
> > not.
>
> This is completely buggered. Either -x takes an argument in all
> cases or it takes no argument in all cases.

I think you're right, but I believe Bruce meant to use "-x"
as a metasyntactic option, in which case we don't know which
flavor it is & therefore can only answer in a case-by-case
manner.

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pohl@screaming.org
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:11 2006

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