Re: svn prop* syntax weirdness

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> I think we need to come up with a new interface for accessing
> unversioned revprops, and make the current interface do what we
> expect.

Oops!

Let me just say that all those people who said this interface was bad
were right, and I was wrong :-). In good company, but still wrong.

A lesson for the future, maybe:

I think our confusion was that overloading `-r' worked okay for
`propset', since you could never change a property at a specified
revision of a versioned object -- that wouldn't make sense. But then
we carried it over into proplist and propget, where it *would* make
sense to use -r with a versioned object. And since the overload
doesn't work for proplist and propget, we shouldn't have used it for
propset either.

Should we put the current 'propfoo -r' functionality under
'revpropfoo' or `rpropfoo' instead?

-K

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Received on Wed Nov 6 21:25:35 2002