Re: svn up -p

On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:33:58AM -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Noel Yap <yap_noel@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > --- "Andreas J. Koenig" <andreas.koenig@anima.de>
> > wrote:
> > > Has anybody considered a "print" command instead?
> > > Re-using "update"
> > > for a purpose that has nothing to do with updating
> > > seems odd to me.
> >
> > This is a good point. If you're going the "new
> > command" route, what about "cat"?
>
> '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.

Why partners? Why not the same command? One prints out directories, one
prints out files.

Cheers,
-Greg "Lobbying for 'svn fetch' Again" Stein

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