Re: svn commit: rev 2547 - trunk/subversion/clients/cmdline

cmpilato@collab.net writes:
> So, in this case, you want to see a regular svn error output, with
> something like: "Merge command is missing args", followed by `svn
> help merge' output?
>
> Seems fine, though I'd like to think our usage messages should be good
> enough that we don't need to be that verbose.

Here's what I'm thinking:

The usage messages essentially say something like

   "Here is subcommand FOO, which takes any of the following 10
    options and/or arguments: blah, blah, blah, and blah."

So if you typed something wrong, you have to figure which of the 10
things you didn't do right, or which one you meant to do.

If a context-specific error preceded that, it could drastically
shorten the amount of time needed to figure out what you did wrong,
because it would tell you directly :-). Then the usage message is
there to tell you what you should have done instead.

-K

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Received on Tue Jul 16 20:01:47 2002