Re: "svn ls" too complex?

On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 12:32, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:33:18AM -0500, Karl Fogel wrote:
> > We don't support subcommand-specific options.
>
> Why not? -- justin

Well, one of the things we don't like about CVS is that "cvs -l update"
and "cvs update -l" do two different things, for example. We want
options to have the same meaning no matter where they appear in the
command.

But if, say, the -l option takes an argument in the "svn co" command and
doesn't take an argument in the "svn ls" command, then you can't be sure
what

  svn -l ls co

means.

So, we have one set of options. Anything terribly complicated is
usually a long option anyway.

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Received on Mon Jul 29 18:37:31 2002