Re: argh

Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za> writes:
> What I think justin is saying is, why not allow this:
>
> $ svn co http://host/repos/module
> $ svn co http://host/repos/module [-d] path
> $ svn co http://host1/repos1/module1 http://host2/repos2/module2
> $ svn co http://host1/repos1/module1 http://host2/repos2/module2 [-d] path

I think the number of people who want to create local files whose
names *look* like URLs can be counted on the fingers of one thumb.

+1 on the solution everyone else has been +1'ing.

> The only problem I see with that is that it would mean that "-d" would
> not be available for any other use.

Exactly. Single-letter lowercase options are like diamonds; and we
should be like De Beers. At least in this respect.

-K

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Received on Fri Jul 26 21:47:47 2002