Daniel Shahaf: > > I had already written about an extension of the caret syntax > > to take the current working directory into account, so that, > > being in svn/trunk/project/xml/ , one does not have to type > > > > svn cp ^/trunk/project/xml/1.xml ^/trunk/project/xml/2.xml > > > > but can simply say: > > > > svn cp ~~/1.xml ~~/2.xml or > > svn cp --remote 1.xml 2.xml > > > > or something else to the same effect, so as not to repeat the > > paths from the repository root. > > > > I don't see where you wrote on this before,
Not preserved in Gmane, but it does not matter. > but in any case, this sounds quite reasonable. How about > assigning it the syntax «^./» (caret, dot, slash)? That way we > only have one "special" leading character to worry about. That ^ character must be escaped in Windows, so I don't really like it. My personal (and uneducated) preference of an inexperienced user is to activate CWD URL mode in a cleaner way: either by an option (quite possible, because SVN commands may share options), or via a simpler and shorter syntax than (on Windows) ^^./ . I will, however, be only happy if the caret version is implemented. It is, after all, consistent with the current usage. I think other users of SVN via commadline (instead of the various GUI plugins) should give their opinions and help the maintaners make the correct decision. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ http://preview.tinyurl.com/qcy6mjc [archived]
