Re: [PATCH] cmdclient option human-readable

On Mar 13, 2004, at 6:27 PM, Brian W. Fitzpatrick wrote:

> Hmmmmmm. 'svn help status' gives a *truckload* of information--enough
> to
> help you figure out any flag on status--and it's right there at your
> fingertips.
>
> I'm -0.5 to any changes to svn status output, although I may be able to
> be convinced about the goodness of adding a line at the very top that
> says "See 'svn help status' for details on status flags".

And I'm -1 on adding even that.

What makes 'svn status' so special that it needs a 'go look at the help
if you are confused' warning?

No, we should not be cluttering out our output with hand holding,
especially hand holding that's obvious. I'm not saying that 'svn
status' output is always easy to understand, but there is nothing
special about it that makes it require a pointer to the help, and I
think we can all agree that the statement "more information about the
output of this command can be found in the help for this comment" is
true for every command, and that adding such output to every command is
just the height of lunacy.

-garrett

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Received on Sun Mar 14 00:55:16 2004