Some bzr newbie comments (somewhat long)

[Martin Pool]

On 13 Jan 2006, John A Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:

> > http://www.bazaar-ng.org/ links to 
> > http://mccormickit.com/bzrweb/index.py/repositories for viewing bzr 
> > branches on the web. I have not seen this link work during the last weeks 
> > so it should probably link to http://bazaar.canonical.com/WebInterface 
> > instead. A non working link on the front page gives the wrong impression.
> 
> Martin, can you fix this? I agree, main pages should not have broken links.

Fixed now.  Thanks for telling us Jens, and for the other good feedback
points.

> > User interface for rename, move, mv: comming from unix experience it is not 
> > clear what the difference is between rename, move and mv. Isn't it all the 
> > same? I haven't looked at the code yet, but the help texts doesn't really 
> > make the difference clear --- on the contrary the help text for mv 
> > explicitly mentions renames and moves, the help text for rename gives an 
> > example of a movement and points to move for what the rename example just 
> > did, etc. etc. I suggest cleaning up this interface to one command (mv?) 
> > that can handle all cases of renames and movement of 1 or more files, and 
> > then remove the two redundant commands from the user interface. (Perhaps 
> > "renames" should have a "service check" at the same time? I don't know.)

Yes, I think we will just change then to all work like unix mv and make
'move' and 'rename' aliases for that.

-- 
Martin
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