On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 00:59, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:38:40PM -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > > (general)
> > > I would introduce early in the book and use consistently some
> > > method of avoiding urls in the commands. Maybe
> > > export SVNREP='http://my.repo.com/subversion'
> > > and
> > > svn checkout $SVNREP/mymodule
> > > maybe something else....
> >
> > Why? Most people only do that sort of thing when they're about to
> > execute 20 commands that require the same $SVNREP prefix. It's pretty
> > uncommon to *ever* have to type a url in day to day work. This
> > technique is more useful for scripts that do automated repository access
> > with no working copies available.
>
> No but this is a common question on #svn and one of the first things a
> cvs converter asks is "How do I specify my default repository." Right
> now this is the only answer we have.
I'm +0 on adding a <tip></tip> somewhere in the book reminding people
that they can set their default repos as a shell variable, but I'm a
strong -1 on using $SVNREP everywhere.
-Fitz
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Received on Thu Feb 19 13:41:57 2004