Repository referencing in command lines (was Re: 08:16 < abentley> Better phrasing: [...])

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 05:49:32PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Erik B?gfors, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> One reason that was sooo much better in svn than in cvs is the
> following
> 
> cvs -d :pserver:user at host.domain:port/path co path/to/branch
> vs.
> svn co svn://user@host.domain/path/to/branch
> 
> it's much easier to type, remember and use.

On that, I s'pose we can only disagree.  I *HATE* that svn version.
With the repository path cleanly separated from the path within the
repository, it's very easy to define the repository elsewhere (as by
the globbing or env variables or such discussed previously), and then
simply specify the path within the repository as normal.  With the two
jammed together, substituting parts separately is much ickier in the
UI.

I'm still not sure I'm overly fond of the branch being
described/stored as a path within the module, but that's not a big
deal either way; I can just name my branches flatly if I want.



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