On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:39:53PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: > Of course, the question always raised when you try to do this is "why is > this better than just using shell variables" > > if you can give me a good answer to take back to [EMAIL PROTECTED], i'm > happy to
If we had something to expand to "Repository Root", then you would have a mechanism that would automatically work in whatever repository you're currently working in. Something that can't be said about shell variables. Even better if we can choose something that isn't already a shell meta character, and so needs no quoting itself. What if we let "^[+]" substitute Repository Root? We'd get svn diff +/trunk/gcc/foo.c foo.c I'm undecided if automatically appending a / to the expansion is helpful. It probably is, since essentially all uses need it. r~
