[Monotone-devel] Order of the attr command parameters

[Lapo Luchini]

While using SVN at work I noticed that mtn's and svn's attribute
manipulation parameters have got two parameter inverted, that is:

  svn propset PROPNAME PROPVAL PATH...
  mtn attr set PATH ATTR VALUE

>From the point of view of attr=value, I think monotone's order has a
sense, but OTOH svn's order easily allows to apply the attribute to many
files; e.g.:

  svn propset svn:mime-type text/css *.css
  for n in *.sh; do mtn attr set $n mtn:execute true; done

I think the former is easier to use. Well, in fact nothing is really
limiting the "attr set" command to accept more PATH names one after
another: last two parameters would always be ATTR and VALUES and the
previous ones would be all PATHs. But I think it would feel a little
more strange, even though retro-compatible.

What do you think of it?

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