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Re: CVSROOT type functionality?

From: Robert W Anderson <rwa_at_alumni.princeton.edu>
Date: 2002-08-31 08:42:56 CEST

Peter Davis wrote:

>On Friday 30 August 2002 22:50, Robert W Anderson wrote:
>
>
>>svn ls as well as all the
>>commands that work on URLs directly (rm, etc.) also would benefit.
>>
>>
>
>I think the problem is that some of those commands can take both a URL or a
>local directory, and so they require the full 'scheme://path' syntax in order
>to differentiate the two. So if 'rm' responded to some $SVNROOT env
>variable, how would it know when 'svn rm foo' was talking about $SVNROOT/foo
>or just plain './foo'?
>
True. This reflects what feels like an odd overload to me. It would
seem more natural to me to have svn commands act on working directories
(always), and reserve all direct repo actions for svnadmin (for that
well deserved extra dose of respect). That seems more intuitive to me
than having some commands have "direct commit" semantics. But that's
probably not going to be considered at this point in the game.

Bob

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