Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 22:48, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> > > 2. Phillip Martin's suggestion, where "svn diff" takes either one or
> > > two arguments (instead of N arguments or two arguments).
>
> > personally, (2) seems the most intuitive to me, but i haven't done a
> > ton of work with cvs. what makes this syntax inconsistent with cvs?
>
> In CVS, I can make a bunch of mods in a directory, do "cvs diff path1
> path2", and see the mods I made to path1 and path2 in particular. I do
> this all the time. I could "echo path1 path2 | xargs -n1 svn diff", of
> course; it's just harder.
>
> It's not just inconsistent but potentially surprising. Under Phillip's
> suggestion, "svn diff path1 path2" would diff path2 against path1,
> producing a successful result which is totally different from what a CVS
> user would expect.
Yes, it's different, is that a big problem? I don't use CVS a great
deal, but when I run 'svn diff' it is usually with zero or one
arguments. When I use two arguments, comparing the two arguments
against each other is usually what I *want*.
Is having the 'svn diff TARGET1 TARGET2' behaviour depend on the exact
form of the targets a good interface? I would much prefer consistency
with 'svn merge' than with CVS.
--
Philip
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Received on Tue May 7 16:27:45 2002