Re: Symbolic links and Samba

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Eric Gillespie <epg_at_pretzelnet.org> wrote:
> "David Glasser" <glasser_at_davidglasser.net> writes:
>
> > I find "-r" to be a little confusing here. It's different from most
> > other svn commands, where "-r" really means "select r42 instead of the
> > default revision (eg HEAD)".
>
> This is selecting, in a way. I know what you're getting at, but
> I'm not sure it's a confusion non-svn-hackers will get or even
> care about. "I'm specifying a revision, aren't I?" I don't
> know; I'm not going to cry if we go with --base-rev ;->.

Sure, but there are no other commands that I know of where there's
only one legal range for "-r", and everything else gets an error
message.

On the other hand I've been bikeshedding too much this week. I'll
happily apply any reasonable patch, I mean.

--dave

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