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

That should, IMO, be the charter of the command line client
group. Many of the letters for CVS's command line options make
absolutely no sense. Let's hear it for `Feature Compatible' with CVS,
not `Just as buggy and weird as' CVS.

-Fitz
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:11 2006