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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability
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Matthew Palmer |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:49:32 +1000 |
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Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i |
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 05:37:36PM -0400, Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:18:45PM -0700, Pierce T.Wetter III wrote:
>
> > In CVS, while you can, you don't have to type:
> >
> > -d :ext:address@hidden:/Repository
> >
> > in front of every command. So the CVS tutorials all omit that
> > stuff, for the benefit of the tutorial.
>
> Speaking of which...
>
> Is there anything preventing[1] arch from having a CVSROOT-like
> environment variable to override all assumptions based on 'my-default-
> archive'?
my-default-archive is merely an arch-internal CVSROOT equivalent.
What I'd really like, instead of that, is aliases for archives. Add an
--alias option to register-archive, which allows you to specify an alias
name. For simplicity, aliases probably shouldn't be allowed to be valid
archive names.
I'm quite sure I'm not the only one that would find this useful. Specifying
an archive by it's full name is an RSI-inducing experience. Of course, it
can be simulated with environment vars, but I think it'd be worth including.
After all, most Arch operations could be done with a handful of commands --
the rest is just cream...
- Matt
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] in-tree builds, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] in-tree builds, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/06/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, James Blackwell, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Tom Lord, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Jason McCarty, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Jani Monoses, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Andrew Suffield, 2004/06/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Tom Lord, 2004/06/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Andrew Suffield, 2004/06/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Pierce T . Wetter III, 2004/06/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/06/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability,
Matthew Palmer <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Archive namespace usability (was: Online book for usability), David Allouche, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Archive namespace usability (was: Online book for usability), Matthew Palmer, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Archive namespace usability, Aaron Bentley, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Colin Walters, 2004/06/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Matthew Palmer, 2004/06/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Tom Lord, 2004/06/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Matthew Dempsky, 2004/06/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Juliusz Chroboczek, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, James Blackwell, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Jani Monoses, 2004/06/25