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#70 Basic syntax of WC paths should not be buried in a chapter named Advanced Topics

en-1.6
Fixed
nobody
None
Medium
Defect
2011-08-18
2010-01-20
Anonymous
No

Originally created by: sa3ruby@gmail.com
Originally owned by: cmpilato

The premise of this issue is that people should not have to read an entire
book, including a section called Peg and Operative Revisions in a chapter
named Advanced Topics in order to correctly code an svn command in a script
they are writing.  At a minimum, there should be a forward pointer to this
section. 

Further background:

http://intertwingly.net/blog/2010/01/15/Peg-svn-revisions

Note: this is emphatically *not* a defect report about the need to append
an '@' to file names that may, themselves, contain '@' signs; or on the
incompatible API change that that represents -- I understand how such came
to be.  But I do have a suggestion along those lines: if a peg revision is
specified and a file is skipped in the processing of a command then perhaps
an additional informational message can be produced suggesting that perhaps
an @ at the end of the command is needed?  If that produces too many false
positives, then perhaps that could be further scoped down to purported peg
revisions that contain non-numeric characters.  That may not help the
news@11 case, but would have helped in my case (the file names in question
were email addresses).

Discussion

  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2010-10-15

    Originally posted by: cmpilato

    (No comment was entered for this change.)

    Labels: Milestone-en-1.6

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2011-06-28

    Originally posted by: cmpilato

    (No comment was entered for this change.)

    Owner: cmpilato

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2011-07-15

    Originally posted by: cmpilato

    Pushing this off as not-strictly-needed-for-1.6-coverage.  (Trying to get to the 1.7 work sooner rather than later.)

    Labels: Milestone-en-1.7

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2011-08-18

    Originally posted by: cmpilato

    Add a much earlier mention of the at-syntax problem (to Chapter 1's "Addressing the Repository" section) in [r4011].  While that section is about the repository, it's "entry-level" enough that I suspect nearly everyone will read it.

    Resolving this as "Fixed", but of course, Sam, if you want something better/different, feel free to reopen and suggest as much.

    Status: Fixed

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2011-08-18

    Originally posted by: cmpilato

    Backported to the 1.6 version in [r4012].

    Labels: -Milestone-en-1.7 Milestone-en-1.6

     

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