Re: RFC: revised text for "svn help merge"

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 06:56:24PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> C. Michael Pilato wrote on Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:01:41 -0400:
> > On 10/29/2010 11:57 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > > Thoughts? Comments?
> >
> > I've not reviewed your suggested help text. But merely seeing the size of
> > makes me wonder ... is it time for 'svn help SUBCOMMAND --verbose' ?
>
> Don't you think the help text you've written has outgrown being
> maintained as a string literal in some C source file?

I've already been toying with the idea of moving the help texts into
their own file (e.g. help.c). The C strings defined in that file would
then be used by main.c.

The file could possibly be auto-generated, but we'd have to be careful
not to make things harder for translators if we did that.

> We could maintain it in *.txt/manpage/docbook format. If you'd like it
> to be shipped alongside our libraries/binaries, I'm sure that can be
> arranged...

I'd like to keep the texts short enough so they can still be embedded
as C strings into the binary. Being constrained is a good thing because
I don't want the help texts to end up replacing the book.
Received on 2010-10-30 15:30:09 CEST