Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
>>>>>>On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 19:54:56 -0600, "B. W. Fitzpatrick" <fitz@red-bean.com> said:
>>>>>
>
> >> > I believe the "-p" in CVS stood for "pipe", as in "pipe to stdout".
> >> > Something involving "pipe" might be better; if you use
> >> > "--print-only", people are going to think it has something to do
> >> > with their printer.
> >>
> >> I think the important word here is 'stdout', not pipe. People need to
> >> realize that the file comes out of the standard output.
> >>
> >> But that's just me :-)
>
> > I agree. is --stdout too weird/unix centric?
>
> Has anybody considered a "print" command instead? Re-using "update"
> for a purpose that has nothing to do with updating seems odd to me.
Or "get" command... I thought about it. However, a flag to update is
CVS usage which is not that confusing, IMO. On the other hand adding
a new command for relatively rare operation is not desirable. When occasionally
trying to use some other SCM tool, I was very confused by a couple of
screens of commands.
- Volodya
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Received on Wed Nov 6 09:35:50 2002