Re: Confusing syntax

Karl Fogel wrote:
> Scott Lamb <slamb@slamb.org> writes:
>
>>I was just confused by a couple syntax things:
>>
>>1. svnadmin SUBCOMMAND REPOS_PATH
>> vs.
>> svnlook REPOS_PATH [COMMAND]
>>
>> Why are these opposite?
>
>
> This I think is just bad planning. There may be some deeper reason,
> but I can't think of it off the top of my head.

If I patched svnlook+docs to be "svnlook COMMAND REPOS_PATH" instead
(mandatory command instead of default info), would there be a chance
it'd be accepted at this point? I think it's worth changing and better
to change it now than post-1.0. And I think it's better to change
svnlook than svnadmin because:

- svnadmin is probably used much more often, so it'd be less of a shock.
- IMHO, command repos makes more sense than the other way around.
- This way is more consistent with svn also:
   svn COMMAND [TARGETS]

It would mean everyone would have to recopy their commit-email.pl script
and probably change other hook scripts.

-- 
Scott Lamb
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