Re: What should `svn commit' print?

On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:51:30PM -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>...
> 2. M <- foo.c
> D <- bar.c
> A <- baz.h
> Commit succeeded, repository revision 320.
>
> [side question: maybe this means that during a checkout or
> update, we'd see the arrow going in the other direction? :) ]

I don't think that the arrows add much. I read it as "foo.c is going to M".
Or possibly assignment: "M takes foo.c".

My second concern (although slight) is the use of shell metacharacters. I
dunno in what cases it will create a hassle, but certain types of parsing
might get tripped up with needing to escape the '<-' pattern.

Personally, I'm not bothered by the full words. Why the need to be terse?
We're down to a single line, which is the important part. No need to be
horizontally-terse :-) Single letters vs words are the same complexity to
parse, yet the word is easier for the human.

Cheers,
-g

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