Re: [RFC] 'basic/additional command set' - adding svn subcommands without destroying our learning curve

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:19 +0000, Julian Foad wrote:
> I feel it would be very helpful for our basic "svn help" output to categorise
> the commands and give information about them, as has been proposed before. (I
> don't find an alphabetical listing to be of much help.)

I resubmit http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-07/0474.shtml as a
counterargument. I don't think version control commands naturally
categorize.

I can live with basic/additional since the best alternative is to make
the additional command not exist at all. (I don't want to see us adding
"purge" and "sync" and "trackdown" and svnversion and so on to the basic
command set until ours looks like arch's.) If there are slightly
specialized utility commands which are harder to find, that's arguably a
better solution than having those specialized utilities scripted by each
user or dumped into contrib.

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Received on Thu Nov 3 18:06:13 2005