Re: Small user interface request

Btw, this is long accepted (by the CVS development team) as a bug in
CVS too, it's just that no one's fixed it.

In other words, it's no one's idea of a good user interface, it's just
a case of bad implementation.

In general, the bad interfaces in CVS that are the result of
implementation compromises (or lazinesses, whichever case may be),
will not be duplicated in Subversion.

"Daniel L. Rall" <dlr@finemaltcoding.com> writes:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >
> > I've just got bit by this _again_.
> >
> > $ cvs diff /work/src/gcc/gcc/tradcpp.c
> > cvs [server aborted]: absolute pathname `/work/src/gcc/gcc/tradcpp.c'
> > illegal for server
> >
> > $ (cd /work/src/gcc/gcc; cvs diff tradcpp.c)
> > Index: tradcpp.c
> > ...
> >
> > It should notice that the target is in a VCed directory, chop off the
> > irrelevant leading pathname components, and proceed. I shouldn't have
> > to remember to do it by hand.
>
> +1, excellent suggestion Zack. I would love to see this too.
> --
>
> Daniel Rall <dlr@finemaltcoding.com>
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:07 2006