On Nov 2, 2005, at 7:45 PM, Branko Čibej wrote:
However, before coming up with a zillion suggestions about how to
make the syntax nicer, please do consider the idea that we did put
a lot of thought into the diff syntax, and that covering all the
uses and edge cases and is not easy.
Any system that requires me to specify the same things over and over
again, is broken. cvs _never_ did.
cvs diff -rtag1 file.c
cvs update -jtag-1 -jtag-2 file1.c file2.c
cvs update -rnew-branch .
the list goes on and on. You sacrificed usability for the masses for
an edge case that we don't care about. The good news, is the
interface is trivial to fix. Find a solution, and just fix it. I
want a user interface that uses no more words than the above, for the
above operations, and no more funny characters than the above
either. I don't mind if instead of -rtag1, I have to use -rtags/
tags1 and -rbranches/apple/trunk, that sort of expansion is fine.
In cvs land, I typed -d:whatever, about once a year, I want to type
svn: about once a year as well. If someone wants to do something
funny, let them type a long command line, that's ok.
Until then, this _is_ a regression.
Oh, and how does one do:
-rb1 -D '20 days ago'
in svn? It felt like svn threw away all the fine GNU data handling
stuff. Instead of throwing it away, reuse it. cvs has it, GNU date
has it.
