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RE: Enhancement to ^/ syntax

Author pilotbob
Full name Bob Archer
Date 2009-09-29 14:20:26 PDT
Message > On Sep 29, 2009, at 4:18 PM, Hacksaw wrote:
>
> > The ^/ syntax is pretty cool, but still doesn't really replace the
> > $CVSROOT
> > functionality, since that is useful when checking out a folder.
> >
> > My suggestion is to have aliases definable in the config file, or in
> > an
> > environement variable. These would then be used in the same sort of
> > syntax:
> >
> >
> > ---Config---
> >
> > [aliases]
> > jbx svn+ssh://svn/svn/JumboBox
> > fish svn://example.com/svn/guppie++
> >
> > Then the syntax could be
> >
> > svn co ^jbx/trunk/src
> >
> > And so on.
> >
> > What do folks think? Has this been discussed?
>
> I'm just wondering why this belongs in Subversion proper. How does
> this differ from just using environment variables set in a .bashrc (or
> similar platform-specific location)?

I'm not even sure what the big advantage of this is. Once you do your checkout svn knows the path to the repository and you don't really need to use it a lot from that point on. You can use WC paths and the tab key in your shell to help with long paths.

BOb

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Enhancement to ^/ syntax hacksaw Hacksaw 2009-09-29 13:18:28 PDT
     Re: Enhancement to ^/ syntax levyam Andy Levy 2009-09-29 13:33:30 PDT
     Re: Enhancement to ^/ syntax hwright Hyrum K. Wright 2009-09-29 13:38:33 PDT
         RE: Enhancement to ^/ syntax pilotbob Bob Archer 2009-09-29 14:20:26 PDT
             Re: Enhancement to ^/ syntax hacksaw Hacksaw 2009-09-30 07:56:25 PDT
         Re: Enhancement to ^/ syntax Daniel Shahaf <d dot s at daniel dot shahaf dot name> Daniel Shahaf <d dot s at daniel dot shahaf dot name> 2009-10-02 13:44:42 PDT
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