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RE: svn cat (was: Re: svn up -p)

From: Barry Scott <barry.alan.scott_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: 2002-11-08 00:23:10 CET

I keep seeing the "blame" command being talked about. That
is a terrible name for a command. In many organisations its
seen as bad practice to "blame" developers for bugs. I'd have
chosen a command name like "annotate".

Barry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Branko Cibej [mailto:brane@xbc.nu]
> Sent: 06 November 2002 19:59
> To: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: svn cat (was: Re: svn up -p)
>
>
> Benjamin Pflugmann wrote:
>
> >Hello.
> >
> >On Wed 2002-11-06 at 04:28:22 -0800, Noel Yap wrote:
> >[...]
> >
> >
> >>Another thought that's flashed through my mind is that
> >>the soon-to-come "blame" is very similar to this
> >>functionality.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Funny. While reading the thread, I just came up with the
> >same idea. So, I second that.
> >
> These are very strange and disturbing associations.
>
> "cat" would fetch a file and pipe it to the standard output. "blame"
> would print a line-by-line annotation, but only for text files. I fail
> to see how those are even remotely similar, except in that they write
> something to stdout.
>
> --
> Brane Cibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
>
>
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