On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 04:55:03PM -0400, Greg Stein wrote: > While we're on the subject of wacky options to 'svn' ... I'd like to > talk abouit pulling out all of these shortnames. These things are very > obtuse. Seeing "--sr" in a script is going to make me scratch my head.
These aliases are meant for interactive use. > Does ANYBODY here know what --sr means, when passed to svn? And no > looking at the code or the help doc. That's why they are mentioned in the help output :) > > How about --ndd? > > I do not see these adding any true utility to Subversion, and only > creating a mess of options. When we started Subversion, one of the > goals was to have a clear command line. People were absolutely > confused by the myriad options passed to CVS (global options vs > cmd-specific options). And in today's environment, we have things like > 'git' with a billion subcommands and options. > > I feel that a change, like below, is sending us down the same path of > creating a client with so many multitudes of options that it becomes > HARD to use. Not easier. We already shipped the --cl alias in 1.6.x which inspired the other aliases. I'm fine with removing all the other aliases we've added since the last release if people really think that it's a bad idea. I still prefer typing --ri over --reintegrate, or --ie over --ignore-externals. Maybe we should allow creating custom short aliases for such options from the client config file? (I know you hate config knobs, too, but I want short options one way or another.)
