Re: client help messages

"B. W. Fitzpatrick" <fitz@red-bean.com> writes:
> Well, I for one often find myself doing this in a big CVS working
> copy:
>
> $ cvs up -d > delta.txt
>
> and then I look at delta.txt for added/modded files, etc. I think I'd
> prefer errors to go to STDERR so that I would see them right away.

Bingo, thank you. I understand now.

+1 on Michael's proposal:

> exactly,
> svn --nosuchcommand -> STDERR
> svn --help -> STDOUT

with the former exiting with non-zero code, and the latter with zero,
of course. Have made new issue #402, so we don't forget about this.
I'll do it as soon as get a chance, if no one else beats me to it
(please, someone beat me to it).

-K

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:32 2006