Hi Karl Heinz, On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 11:25:56AM +0200, Karl Heinz Marbaise wrote:
> i've a suggestion about the caret notation which is very handy in daily > work. > > The caret syntax is very helpfull if you're working with a repository > which contains only a single project and of course makes life easier. > > svn cp ^/trunk ^/tags/RELEASE-1.0.0 -m"- Tagging" > > > But unfortunately i don't have often the pleasure to work with such > repositories. The usual case is to have multiple projects inside a > repository. The result of this is the following: > > svn cp ^/path/trunk ^/path/tags/RELEASE-1.0.0 -m"- Tagging" > > The part "path" becomes longer and longer the more projects are > contained in such a repository or depending of the structure of the > projects/modules. > > > So i would like to suggest to introduce an enhancement of the > caret syntax to get to a shorter way of writing the things for > tagging/branching. > > svn cp ^^/trunk ^^/tags/RELEASE-1.0.0 -m"- Tagging" > > The usage of the doubled ^ is just as an example, cause i know > on Windows you already have to type the doubled ^ because of the shell. So what should ^^ (or however it turns out) mean, exactly? I always wanted something like "repository path of current working copy" - is that what you mean? Maybe ^: could be used as the anchor for "repository path of current working copy", if you are in a copy of /some/path/to/project/branch/whatever you might use svn cp ^: ^:../../tags/newtag to copy that path to /some/path/to/project/tags/newtag. Might be difficult to implement, I suppose but IANAD ;). Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.tisc.de
