Re: [PATCH] git-svn: handle changed svn command-line syntax

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> wrote:
> Sam Vilain wrote:
> > Sam Vilain wrote:
> >> Previously, if you passed a revision and a path to svn, it meant to look
> >> back at that revision and select that path.  New behaviour is to get the
> >> path then go back to the revision.  The old syntax is selected with new
> >> syntax PATH@REV.  This new syntax is not supported by the old tools, so we
> >> have to try both in turn.
> > 
> > Blast, this analysis is wrong.  Hold off, I'll see what's really going
> > on and re-submit.
> 
> ok, figured it out :)
> 
> I was close!  I was just thrown off by 'svn ls PATH@REV'
> 
> The patch is the same, just the description has changed.
> 
> Subject: [PATCH] git-svn: handle changed svn cp command-line syntax
> 
> Previously, if you passed a revision and a path to svn cp, it meant to look
> back at that revision and select that path.  New behaviour is to get the
> path then go back to the revision (like other commands that accept @REV
> or -rREV do).  The more consistent syntax is not supported by the old
> tools, so we have to try both in turn.

The @REV and -rREV distinction/ambiguity has always confused me in svn,
too.  It always seems that it needed to be one way sometimes, the other
way at other times, and even _both_ at other times...

-- 
Eric Wong