Re: Feature Request: command-line syntax for SVN calls

Thurston S wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2:20 am, "Milen A. Radev" <mra..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/2/3 Thurston S <tstone2..._at_gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> If I run a command in Tortoise, like checkout, the first line in the
>>> dialog box is "command" "Checkout http://..., revision=HEAD, Fully
>>> Recursive"
>>> This is useful to see what is being done, but if I want to reproduce
>>> it on the command line, I would still have to translate it into
>>> svn checkout --dept=infinite --revision=HEAD http://...
>>> Since I work on the command line with a lot of my automated scripts,
>>> it would be very easy and less error prone if I could just copy and
>>> paste the proper command.
>> The problem is TSVN uses the SVN libraries directly and not the CLI client.
>> But you could always look up the equivalent command here -http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-cli.html.
>>
>> --
>> Milen A. Radev
>>
> I agree, but there is a correspondense even though a command is not
> actually called (as pointed out by the look-up link provided). My
> suggestion was to 'build' the corresponding call... if possible of
> course. If it is something that the command line client can't do,
> then it is understandable that it wouldn't be outputted.

The information shown is for the users. So it should be much more
'wordy' than the equivalent CL calls.
And it would confuse many users if we would print the equivalent CL
calls - they would assume that TSVN is actually using the CL client.

Stefan

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