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Re: svn prop* syntax weirdness

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_lyra.org>
Date: 2002-11-06 23:45:11 CET

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:44:22PM +0200, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
> Karl Fogel wrote:
> > Should we put the current 'propfoo -r' functionality under
> > 'revpropfoo' or `rpropfoo' instead?

What about 'svn propfoo --revision-prop -r NNN' ? This stuff doesn't happen
all that often, so a longopt seems quite all right for modifying the
behavior.

If you stick with the new subcommands, definitely don't use 'rpropfoo'. That
is a bit confusing.

>...
> But - I think we are getting a bit heavy on the amount of commands
> used for that. After this change, the help would look like:

Agreed.

>...
> Or hmm, what about a single subcommand?
>
> ,----
> | prop (p): Manipulate versioned properties on files
> | usage: 1. prop --list [WC_TARGETS]
> | 2. prop --get PROPNAME [WC_TARGETS]
> | 3. prop --delete PROPNAME [WC_TARGETS]
> | 4. prop --edit PROPNAME [WC_TARGETS]
> | 1. prop --set PROPNAME [PROPVAL | -F VALFILE] [WC_TARGETS]

Hunh. Possibly...

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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