Re: Emphasizing commonly-used commands in 'svn help' output.

I really dislike the proposal of just showing a
partial list. There's a few tools that does this, and
they routinely confuse me.

The proper solution IMO is to group the commands into
logical categories; grep --help is a guiding example.

There should even be a short description for each
command, as with grep and a host of other commands.

A long list is not problematic as long as it is easy
on the eye.

I also dislike aliases. They do nothing but making the
help output harder to read and remembering the
commands gets more difficult for newbies. Making a
command a bit shorter to write is no argument; that
can be done by wrapper scripts for those in need.

Four aliases for 'delete' is, well, three to many.

So for instance (the categories would need some, uhm,
work):

Getting stuff from the repo:
  checkout
  commit
  update

Stuff that only affects the working copy:
  ...

Locking:
  lock
  unlock
  ...

Properties
  propdel
  propedit
  propget
  ...

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Received on Tue Jul 12 11:30:00 2005