Re: [Gnu-arch-users] usability enhancements

[Matthew Hannigan]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:54:03PM -0600, John A Meinel wrote:
> Andy Tai wrote:
> > Hi, during the past week some enhancements for
> > usability have been added to the current development
> > source.  The following commands are added:
> > 
> > lint: alias for tree-lint
> > diff: alias for 'what-changed --diffs'

Excellent!  Thanks Andy.

> It would be nice if you could partial differences:
> tla diff filename

I like this one.  The world will love you if you follow the precedent of
other RCSs.

> Or at least
> tla diff -- filename
> 
> I believe the command right now is
> tla diff <revision>
> so I'm okay with making it
> tla diff [revision] [-- filename]
> since that is closer to how other commands work.
> 
> 
> Right now you have to do "tla file-diffs filename", which is not as
> intuitive.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> =:->
> 
> 
> > switch: to change the current directory from an
> > existing revision to another revision
> > 
> > The behaviors are clearly borrowed from bazaar; I
> > believe these commands are often used functions so
> > they have values.  Unlike bazaar, however, no existing
> > tla commands/behaviors are removed.
> > 
> > I plan to borrow the branch and the merge commands
> > next.  I welcome ideas and contributions that help
> > enhancing usability, with no or minimal changes to the

The import functionality of bazaar is very nice for
the new user.

Matt