Re: svn log questions

On Dec 10, 2004, at 2:46 AM, Bradley Schick wrote:
>
> I still wonder why making -rPREV be the previous change revision
> wouldn't
> be a better solution.

There's a design tension between these goals:

   - "optimize every command to behave differently, so that each command
can guess what the user really means", and

   - "define a bunch of concepts, and make them behave consistently
across all commands"

You can't have it both ways, and the svn developers chose to go for the
latter goal.

Another example of this is:

    svn commit foo.c
    svn log

You'd think that 'svn log' would show you the commit to foo.c that you
just made, right? After all, that's what CVS does. But it doesn't...
not without running 'svn up' first. It's been the subject of much
debate, but it's another example of 'consistency' winning out over 'do
what I mean'.

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Received on Fri Dec 10 16:04:34 2004