Re: Re: Passing unused opts to every command considered harmful

Comments from the peanut gallery:

You could also issue a non-fatal warning when a global option is used
with a command that doesn't do anything with it.

-Rick-

Greg Hudson wrote:
> I don't know if I consider this a good idea, but it's always possible to
> have --username and --password be accepted by all subcommands, but only
> displayed in the help output of commands which talk to the repository.
> Similarly for --non-interactive.
>
> This permissiveness would be an invisible contract from the perspective
> of "svn help", but it could be documented in the book.
>

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Received on Wed Dec 19 00:06:54 2007