Idea I had once: to have ^-not-followed-by-slash interpreted according
to a config file, e.g.,
% cat ~/.subversion/config
[shorthands]
svn16 = https://svn.eu.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.6.x
% svn info ^svn16/README | grep URL
URL: https://svn.eu.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.6.x/README
%
Orthogonally to that, agreed that ':' would be better than '^', because
* it doesn't have to be escaped in zsh and in cmd.exe
* it looks a bit like a URL or an scp(1) syntax
... but it was too late to change when I suggested it last time, and
it's certainly too late to change now.
Daniel
Tino Schwarze wrote on Fri, 8 Oct 2010 at 12:01 -0000:
> Hi Karl Heinz,
>
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 11:25:56AM +0200, Karl Heinz Marbaise wrote:
>
> > i've a suggestion about the caret notation which is very handy in daily
> > work.
> >
> > The caret syntax is very helpfull if you're working with a repository
> > which contains only a single project and of course makes life easier.
> >
> > svn cp ^/trunk ^/tags/RELEASE-1.0.0 -m"- Tagging"
> >
> >
> > But unfortunately i don't have often the pleasure to work with such
> > repositories. The usual case is to have multiple projects inside a
> > repository. The result of this is the following:
> >
> > svn cp ^/path/trunk ^/path/tags/RELEASE-1.0.0 -m"- Tagging"
> >
> > The part "path" becomes longer and longer the more projects are
> > contained in such a repository or depending of the structure of the
> > projects/modules.
> >
> >
> > So i would like to suggest to introduce an enhancement of the
> > caret syntax to get to a shorter way of writing the things for
> > tagging/branching.
> >
> > svn cp ^^/trunk ^^/tags/RELEASE-1.0.0 -m"- Tagging"
> >
> > The usage of the doubled ^ is just as an example, cause i know
> > on Windows you already have to type the doubled ^ because of the shell.
>
> So what should ^^ (or however it turns out) mean, exactly?
>
> I always wanted something like "repository path of current working copy"
> - is that what you mean? Maybe ^: could be used as the anchor for
> "repository path of current working copy", if you are in a copy of
> /some/path/to/project/branch/whatever you might use
>
> svn cp ^: ^:../../tags/newtag
>
> to copy that path to /some/path/to/project/tags/newtag.
>
> Might be difficult to implement, I suppose but IANAD ;).
>
> Tino.
>
>
Received on 2010-10-08 15:01:16 CEST