Re: [PATCH] Issue #812

"Sander Striker" <striker@apache.org> writes:

> > /me wonders if perhaps the usage message should show the version
> > ... no real need for a separate option/subcommand here.
>
> A seperate -V/--version makes sense IMO.

... except that currently svnadmin does no "real" option parsing. But
I guess we have to take the plunge eventually.

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Rob Siemborski <rjs3@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> > /me wonders if perhaps the usage message should show the version
> > ... no real need for a separate option/subcommand here.
> >
> 
> Yeah, I was considering that myself.
> 
> My thoughts
> -> The usage message is already long, and adding more to it doesn't help
> much.
> -> If someone wants to know the version, they generally just want to know
> that bit of information and don't want to have to sift thorough a lot of
> extra data.
> 
> So, I guess an alternative would be to put it at the *bottom* of the usage
> message (so that it doesn't scroll off the screen).  Opinions?
Hmm... ya know, the more I think about it, the more I want svnadmin's
usage/help to stop sucking like it does today.  We should totally
adopt a system similar to the way `svn' does the usage stuff, where
`svnadmin help' would just list the subcommands, and `svnadmin help
subcommand' would show that subcommand's usage message.  The whole
200-line usage message thing there has been bugging me for quite some
time.
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