Re: [Issue 1191] New - svn cat (and others?) don't look to working copy for properties

"Jack Repenning" <jrepenning@collab.net> writes:
> I think both the meaning "cat the local rev" and the meaning "cat HEAD"
> are useful, and roughly as common.
>
> However, if 'svn cat foo' means "local rev," it may easily be turned
> into that other query with '-r HEAD' (right?). But if it means "HEAD",
> then it's rather trickier to turn it into "local rev" (unless there's a
> magic keywoard for that, too, that I've missed?). An old rubric advises
> "common things should be simple; uncommon things should be possible."
> Making it mean "local rev" (by default) seems to create the broadest
> possible collection of "common easies." It also makes the default
> behavior cheap (non-networked).

If by 'local rev' you mean the local text-base, not the working file,
then +1. (Regular old 'cat' will do for the working file.)

The only question is, should base props or working props apply, for
keyword and eol transformations?

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Received on Mon Mar 17 23:12:56 2003