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Re: Revert has no implicit dot-target.

From: <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2002-07-10 19:27:43 CEST

Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:20:51AM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> > subversion/clients/cmdline/revert-cmd.c:51
> >
> > /* Revert has no implicit dot-target `.', so don't you put that code here! */
> >
> > Is this *really* what we want? (I'll prod in the direction that
> > revert should have an implicit dot-target.)
> >
> > Even if we don't have an implicit dot-target, should we add a note
> > in 'svn help revert'? -- justin
>
> i believe the justification is that revert can cause one to lose data,
> so we are protecting a user from their own carelessness by requiring
> them to say exactly what they mean.
>
> mentioning it in the help output seems like a good idea though.

+1. I await your patches. ;-)

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