Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> 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..
I think URL's are more graceful, too. If someone thinks they might
use files named http://, they should have to go through hoops to make
it work. (I do think we should provide those hoops. That's what the
`script' prefix was about.)
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:14 2006