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

Greg Hudson wrote:

> Perhaps we should reconsider whether we want a single command with
> subcommands in the first place. Why "svn commit" intead of
> "svncommit"? The only real advantage to the former is a cleanliness
> issue for aliases (e.g. we'd have to either sacrifice "svnci" as an
> alias for "svncommit", or put a symlink svnci -> svncommit; if we go
> the symlink route, our contribution to the number of entries in the
> binary directory becomes absurd).

Amusingly enough, OpenSSL just went the other way -- to a single
command.

There is one significant advantage to subcommands: only one thing to
rename when things collide.

Aside from wanting to point that out I have no strong opinion.

shap
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:11 2006