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

On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 03:45:43PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > I depend on the contents of ./CVS/Root. ``svn diff -r foo -r bar
> > `cat SVN/Root`/path/to/file'' is much worse than ``cvs rdiff -r foo
> > -r bar path/to/file'' :-) Perhaps I am misunderstanding?
>
> "rdiff" is most often used when you don't have a working directory.
>
> After thinking about this a big more, here is my opinion:
>
> * It's probably bad namespace mixing to use the same argument
> slot for either "working directory file" or "repository
> object". So a command-line flag to say "operate on the
> repository instead of the working directory" is probably
> better than just slipping in a URL.

A local file "will never" start with http://, so we can easily differentiate
between references to the working dir and to the repository itself.

Shouldn't be a problem at all..

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/