On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 06:51:25PM +0100, Sebastien Cevey wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:40:00AM -0800, Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote:
>
> > > > Keep in mind that 'cat' is fairly unix centric.
> > >
> > > Heh, so is 'svn ls'. Maybe we should create a 'dir' alias for it. :-)
> >
> > Good point, I've never actually used svn ls yet, so it hasn't bothered me.
> > Plus, I'm used to switching between Unix and windows[1], but I think if we're
> > going to name commands after shell tools, they should have aliases for the
> > equivalent tools in unix and windows shells.
>
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> Having dozens of aliases like ls/dir etc would rather confuse the
> people using svn rather than helping them, I think. By keeping the
> number of action small (and this is the topic of the discussion about
> 'cat'), you ensure that it's easier to learn.
I was thinking of this too. Maybe we [c|sh]ould make the client, or at least the
help, simple by making it platform specific?
>
>
> I think it's not harder for people to learn "svn ls" than to learn
> "svn blame", i.e.
>
Possibly not harder to learn, but if it were svn dir, then they wouldn't need
to learn at all.
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