"svn version" subcommand: evidence of user desire for

[kf...@collab.net]

Not all developers read users@, so I thought I'd forward this to dev@,
so we can all see an instance of this happening in the wild...

(Garrett Rooney already answered his question, by the way.  And he
resisted asking the guy "What version of Subversion are you running?"
before answering, too, which I thought impressive :-) ).

-K

Re: "svn version" subcommand: evidence of user desire for

[Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org>]

There are a number of places that you could print the version.

1. svn with on args
2. svn help

You might want to print the one line headline version rather then the 
gory details of
all the modules that where compiled in with a pointer to --version 
giving the details.

Barry

On Aug 5, 2004, at 03:21, John Szakmeister wrote:

> On Wednesday 04 August 2004 06:13 pm, Garrett Rooney wrote:
>> kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>>> Not all developers read users@, so I thought I'd forward this to
>>> dev@, so we can all see an instance of this happening in the wild...
>>>
>>> (Garrett Rooney already answered his question, by the way.  And he
>>> resisted asking the guy "What version of Subversion are you running?"
>>> before answering, too, which I thought impressive :-) ).
>>
>> For what it's worth, I suspect that the problem would also go away if
>> options like --version, which work even without a specific subcommand,
>> showed up in the output of 'svn help'.
>
> I agree.  I know that it's an option and not a subcommand, but it 
> doesn't
> seem intuitive to type 'svn help help' to get those options.
>
> -John
>
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Re: "svn version" subcommand: evidence of user desire for

[John Szakmeister <jo...@szakmeister.net>]

On Wednesday 04 August 2004 06:13 pm, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> > Not all developers read users@, so I thought I'd forward this to
> > dev@, so we can all see an instance of this happening in the wild...
> >
> > (Garrett Rooney already answered his question, by the way.  And he
> > resisted asking the guy "What version of Subversion are you running?"
> > before answering, too, which I thought impressive :-) ).
>
> For what it's worth, I suspect that the problem would also go away if
> options like --version, which work even without a specific subcommand,
> showed up in the output of 'svn help'.

I agree.  I know that it's an option and not a subcommand, but it doesn't 
seem intuitive to type 'svn help help' to get those options.

-John

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Re: "svn version" subcommand: evidence of user desire for

[Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net>]

kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Not all developers read users@, so I thought I'd forward this to dev@,
> so we can all see an instance of this happening in the wild...
> 
> (Garrett Rooney already answered his question, by the way.  And he
> resisted asking the guy "What version of Subversion are you running?"
> before answering, too, which I thought impressive :-) ).

For what it's worth, I suspect that the problem would also go away if 
options like --version, which work even without a specific subcommand, 
showed up in the output of 'svn help'.

-garrett

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