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Re: Feature request: more abbreviated commands

From: v4r4n <console.cowboy_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-03-05 02:14:27 CET

I believe this request has been made before and denied multiple times
because the developers wish to keep the interface simple.

It is generally agreed that CVS has too many shortcut commands for the
same operations. It doesn't matter that they are easy to add, SVN
is trying not to make this mistake.

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:09:42 +0100, David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote:
> Being used for cvs for years, I have difficulties changing my habits of typing
> "cvs com" and "cvs dif". With svn it's "commit" or "ci", and "diff" or "di".
>
> Can any non-ambiguous shortcut be accepted? e.g. "com" is non-ambiguous for "commit".
> There's no point in cluttering "svn help" with all possible abbrevations, of course.
>
> To detail the algorithm:
> * first check if the command is a known one (as listed in "svn help", which includes documented abbreviations)
> * then look for substrings of the known commands, and:
> - if only one matched, use that one.
> - if more than one matched, refuse command as ambiguous
> - if none matched, refuse command as unknown
>
> --
> David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
> Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
>
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