Re: A rational svn shelve/checkpoint CLI

Stefan Sperling wrote:
>>> svn shelve
>>> svn unshelve
>>> svn shelf --list
>>> svn shelf --drop
>>> svn shelf --diff/--show
>>
>> That's a totally reasonable approach, and is similar to (not exactly the
>> same as) what's currently implemented on trunk and on shelve-checkpoint
>> branch.
>>
>> FWIW you missed out 'svn save' (create a checkpoint, don't revert from WC).
>
> That could be 'svn shelve --keep'

Yes it could...

>> The discussion of syntax for referring to a particular shelf and version is
>> perhaps the more interesting part of the whole discussion; I would welcome
>> any thoughts on that part.
>
> We could assign numbers to them, display those in 'svn shelf --list',
> and let all other shelf-manipulating options expect a number.

Sure, that's implemented already:

[[[
$ svn savepoint log 'qq'
version 1: 52 days ago
  0 files changed

version 2: 51 days ago
  hello.txt | 1 +
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

version 3: 32 days ago
  D5/file | 2 ++
  hello.txt | 1 +
  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

$ svn savepoint restore qq 2
U hello.txt
restored 'qq' version 2 and deleted 1 newer versions

]]]

Now I'm talking about *syntax* for accessing these. I proposed some
syntaxes in the initial email in this thread.

> Additionally, or instead, we could have user-provided shelf entry names
> (UTF-8 strings), and allow them to be used for identification.

I don't like that idea, but thanks for suggesting it anyway; it may
spark some other thoughts.

- Julian
Received on 2018-01-08 16:39:35 CET