I wrote to Daniel Widenfalk: >>>I find it mildly annoying to type the full path >>>within a repository for server-side file opera- >>>tions, such as 'delete' and 'copy'. Observe >>>that, being on Windows, I must use quotes in or- >>>der to escape the caret character: >>> >>> svn rm "^/A/B/C/file.txt" >>> >>>Is there a way to avoid the entry of the full >>>path when invoking this command from A/B/C/ in a >>>working copy? In other words, I should like to >>>have some syntax that told SVN to use the full >>>sever-side path of a file using the current di- >>>rectory within a working copy. For example, in- >>>stead of writing: >>> >>> svn rm "^/A/B/C/file.txt" >>> >>>I could: >>> >>> cd Work/A/B/C >>> svn rm "^^file.txt" >> >>Could you explain why you'd want to do a server- >>side operation on something which is locally ac- >>cessible? I.e. why not do? >> >>$ cd A/B/C >>$ svn rm file.txt >>$ svn commit -m "Another fancy message" > >To save time and HDD load, easier to simplify the >use of server-side 'svn info' e.g. to view lock in- >formation, &c. 'svn ls' kind of does it already...
I think it would be a natural extension of the caren syntax. -- Please, do not forward replies to the list to my e-mail.
