svn cat / svn ls

Greg Stein wrote:

>>'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.

I like this idea a lot! But what name for the command do you suggest?
"fetch" doesn't seem right, because you don't fetch the entire directory,
you just list its entries. Maybe "svn show"?

- Volodya

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Received on Sun Nov 10 14:25:51 2002