On 8/2/06, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net> wrote:
> I've got some complaints about the synsync command-line that I think should
> be be addressed before 1.4.0 is released. And yes, I'm signing up to do
> work resulting from this conversation. The complaints mostly stem from the
> idea that "options" should be optional (and that things that aren't optional
> shouldn't be "options"), and they are as follows:
>
> For 'svnsync init', the SOURCE_URL should be an argument, not an
> option. Let's drop --source-url altogether, and then argue for
> weeks about whether the syntax should be 'svnsync init DEST_URL
> SOURCE_URL' or 'svnsync init SOURCE_URL DEST_URL'. (I plan to use
> the former, for consistency with other svnsync commands, and
> because the DEST_URL is the one getting init'ted.)
The main reason I made it an option was that I kept forgetting which
URL came first. If you want to change it feel free though, I'm
perfectly capable of checking the help output when I forget.
> For 'svnsync copy-revprops', if a revision is required (which it
> currently is), then there shouldn't be a --revision "option", and
> the REVISION should just be an argument. However, I'm wondering if
> anyone has opinions about taking this a different way, namely, not
> requiring a revision and instead having some well-defined default
> value when no explicit one is provided. My opinion is a
> two-parter: teach the program to honor revision ranges, and make
> the default be 0:HEAD.
I don't know about the 0:HEAD part (that's a lot of revprops!), but if
you want to change it from an option to an argument I have no problem
with that.
-garrett (who is glad that people are finally looking at svnsync long
enough to have comments about how its ui should work ;-)
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Received on Thu Aug 3 03:55:36 2006