--- Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> wrote:
> 'cat' seems to imply both a fetch and a print to
> stdout, I like that a
> lot. It goes nicely with 'svn ls'. If we went this
> route, 'svn ls'
> and 'svn cat' would be partners in crime: they both
> dump information
> to the screen, both take a revision arg, and both
> operate on either
> wc-paths or urls. There's a nice consistency there.
Hey, finally, an idea of mine that's had at least two
other positive feedbacks. I should spit out more
ideas before my morning coffee :-)
> On the other hand, I'm still not sure if it's better
> to create a whole
> new subcommand or not. I'm still thinking about
> that.
I share the same concerns. For example, why stop at
"ls" and "cat"? Why not have "find" or any other of
the myriad commands out there?
I may be rambling now, but one thing I liked about
ClearCase is that the entire repository was available
as a file system obviating the need for additional
"ls", "cat", "find" commands since one could all the
commands that were able to access the file system.
I've heard there's webdav_fs (sp?) out there for
Linux. If this were made portable, I think the need
for "svn ls" and "svn cat" should go away. Does
anyone want to take on the challenge? :-) Are there
any bad consequences to this approach I haven't
thought of?
Noel
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