Re: Adding changeset-like functionality to subversion

On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 05:17, Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote:
> On this subject, I think now would be a good time to bring up command specific
> options again. It would be rely nice IMO to be able to do something like
> svn info --url or svn info --lastchangedrev, etc. I'm personally not a fan of
> command specific options, but I can't think of a better way to get this type
> of functionality.

I have no idea what the objection is to long options which only apply to
one command. The whole point of long option names is that they don't
cause conflicts (we can't wind up with a "-s" which means "silent" for
one command and "save" for another).

It may be a reflex reaction caused by the single table we have in the
code containing all long option specifications. People should remember
that that's totally invisible to the user. If we like, we can organize
that table so that it looks like:

  /* Generic options applying to several commands */
  ...

  /* Options for "svn info" */
  ...

  /* Options for "svn switch" */
  ...

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Received on Wed Oct 9 18:32:36 2002