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Re: [PATCH] FAQ suggestion

From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch_at_stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2004-08-30 22:38:06 CEST

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:13:50 +0200, Folker Schamel
<schamel23@spinor.com> wrote :

> > >The trick works differently:
> > >Deleting the file "file.java" is a change of "file.java",
> > >whereas adding a file "File.java" to "." is a change of ".";
> > >Therefore "update *" deletes "file.java", but does not add "File.java".
> > >And "update" means "update .", which adds "File.java".
> >
> >
> > Yes, but the point is the clarity of the FAQ for users who aren't
> > familiar with Subversion. The FAQ is less clear if it uses "*",
> > because many users won't know what that means.
>
>Well, I think everyone knows what "*" in a command line means... ;-)

Not in Windows they don't, because it's undefined. It's up to the
program interpreting the command line, it's not the shell that does
it. For example, in the CMD.EXE shell it sometimes doesn't mean
anything at all:

C:\ echo *
*

>And because I prefer letting the computer do the work,
>I don't want to pick all file names by hand,
>but prefer simply typing "svn update *" ;-)

Me too, but the question wasn't "How do I avoid typing?", it was
"How do I change the case of a filename?".

Duncan Murdoch

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