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

From: B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz_at_red-bean.com>
Date: 2000-10-23 18:22:07 CEST

> Okay:
>
> 1. "export" command, yes.
>
> 2. "export" command requiring date or version option, please no.
> It is not Subversion's place to enforce good CM policy, when
> such enforcement would obstruct other perfectly reasonable uses
> of Subversion. A good release engineer will pass the flag, a
> bad one won't. That's fine, let's just please not make it
> impossible for there to be other uses of "export". (And for the
> record, I *do* have other uses for export very often in CVS, and
> am forced to pass "export -D tomorrow" to get the behavior I
> need.)

I would like to second this as it has bitten me in the past. Of
course, now CVS and I are old friends and I remember to pass it a tag
or '-D tomorrow' or whatnot.

-Fitz
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:12 2006

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