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

Matthew Braithwaite <matt@braithwaite.net> writes:
> Speaking of historical reasons, the change from -d to -r seems a little bit
> gratuitous to me. Does -d count as ``suffocatingly'' similar to CVS? :-)

-d is a historical leftover even in CVS, from the days when the
repository was always a directory on the same machine as the working
copy.

I don't think we should try to preserve CVS's hysterical raisins --
that's needlessly perpetuating confusion (and people *do* get confused
about the -d flag, since the two commonly-used names for the
repository both begin with `r': "repository" and "root").

People may have to think twice at first, but once they get used to it,
it's a better option.

I hope this falls under the last clause in this paragraph from
subversion/subversion/client/README:

   We're trying to be similar to command-line CVS, but not
   suffocatingly so. Subversion will differ where it provides a
   feature CVS doesn't, or doesn't provide something CVS does, or
   where people generally agree that the CVS way is not successful and
   shouldn't be imitated.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:11 2006