Anton Shepelev wrote on Fri, 27 Mar 2020 01:39 +0300: > Daniel Shahaf: > > > Yes, this feature won't happen unless someone invests time in > > making it happen -- but let's not discourage people from > > discussing feature ideas even if they may not personally have > > time to implement them. Discussions are just as useful a > > contribution as patches. > > It is true that I was not prepared to implement this feature myself > when I proposed it. Not having any knowledge of bash or Python, I > would have to use SVN from C, which will take me considerable > time. I am only learing SVN and giving my feedback about what I > think are obvious inefficiencies of its user interface. >
Your feedback is very welcome. :-) > 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, 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. I expect this would be fairly easy to add, but haven't reviewed the code. > I use SVN at work, so what I ask here is a personal and egoistical > request to make my professional life better, but I hope that other > users find the proposal convenient too. In return, I am contributing > to other free and open-source projects, but not, currently, to SVN. > I do this too. :) Cheers, Daniel
