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

On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 12:06:59AM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
>...
> > 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.

Excellent way to characterize it. Yes... definitely more graceful compared
to using a URL plus a requirement for a cmd-line switch just to tell the
client what is blatantly obvious from a simple inspection of the "file".

> 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.)

Well, remember: you can't create a file with "/" in it. On Windows, you
can't create files with ":" in them.

[ the Mac throws all this for a loop: it is rather difficult because the use
  of "/" and ":" probably depends upon the particular filesystem you're
  working against. ]

Cheers,
-g

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