Re: Enhancement to ^/ syntax

On Sep 29, 2009, at 4:18 PM, Hacksaw wrote:

> The ^/ syntax is pretty cool, but still doesn't really replace the
> $CVSROOT
> functionality, since that is useful when checking out a folder.
>
> My suggestion is to have aliases definable in the config file, or in
> an
> environement variable. These would then be used in the same sort of
> syntax:
>
>
> ---Config---
>
> [aliases]
> jbx svn+ssh://svn/svn/JumboBox
> fish svn://example.com/svn/guppie++
>
>
> ---gifnoC---
>
>
>
> Then the syntax could be
>
> svn co ^jbx/trunk/src
>
> And so on.
>
> What do folks think? Has this been discussed?

I'm just wondering why this belongs in Subversion proper. How does
this differ from just using environment variables set in a .bashrc (or
similar platform-specific location)?

-Hyrum

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Received on 2009-09-29 22:39:17 CEST