Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12

On 07/13/2010 05:15 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 05:57:24PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> I don't know why the syntax was reversed: it really looks like an
>> entirely unnecessary parsing complication.
>
> The new syntax looks more like 'svn checkout', so it's more natural
> to use when you're already used to svn checkout.
>
>> I would change it like this:
>
> I think we should discourage use of the old syntax in both the output
> of svn help and in the book. Diff to the help text below.
> Would this improve things?

Sounds good to me.

I think this last sentence starting with "The ambiguous format..."
should go before 1.4 is mentioned because it is relevant to the 1.5 format.

Blair
Received on 2010-07-13 18:09:22 CEST