Re: Proposed New Feature (SVNROOT), '.svnignore', and 'rtag' (Revision Aliases)

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 06:53, TBrowder wrote:
> [About SVNROOT]
> > Allows an administrator an easy way to point to the repository.
> > Allows users a default location (svn URL) for their primary
> > repository. I'm not a touch typist and use aliases a lot. I can
> > easily switch repositories with a two- or three-character alias (under
> > tcsh).
>
> Similarly, though, can't you just set two- or three-character shell
> variables for the repositories you use frequently, and then do "svn co
> $rep/pathname dirname"?
>
> I don't think that approach works so well under Windows, but neither do
> your shell aliases.

Works fine.

   C:\Temp>set SVNREPOS=http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk
   C:\Temp>svn co %SVNREPOS%/subversion/tests/libsvn_fs
   A libsvn_fs\run-fs-tests.py
   A libsvn_fs\key-test.c
   ...

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Received on Wed Mar 17 18:00:14 2004