On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 03:08 +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > "Giovanni Bajo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Joseph S. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | >> You can always see them with the [EMAIL PROTECTED] syntax > | >> > | >> ie > | >> svn ls svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | > > | > Which requires remembering an arbitrary revision number (i.e., making > | > life *harder* not *easier* for people looking for that branch) > | > rather than a more meaningful branch name. > | > | And? > > And meaningful name matters. > I would hate to see the fanatism taken to the point where just because > you can do svn bar | baz fhu means we should not provide means for > not-so-machine-mimicing humans. >
Well, i think it's near-useless because i have doubts people actually go spleunking around dead branches that have been *fully merged* (in SVN, if you create new files on a branch, and merge to mainline, it will retain history, so things like log and annotate will, by default, keep going back through when it was created on the branch). I don't share the view that just because you can script it, means we should retain the absolute minimum and regenerate the list. > -- Gaby
