From users-return-4060-daniel=haxx.se@subversion.apache.org Mon Aug 2 20:30:39 2010 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on giant.haxx.se X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DS_FRIEND autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by giant.haxx.se (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.1) with SMTP id o72IUb81002991 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:30:38 +0200 Received: (qmail 8776 invoked by uid 500); 2 Aug 2010 18:30:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@subversion.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list users@subversion.apache.org Received: (qmail 8769 invoked by uid 99); 2 Aug 2010 18:30:28 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:30:28 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=10.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [192.109.42.8] (HELO einhorn.in-berlin.de) (192.109.42.8) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:30:18 +0000 X-Envelope-From: stsp@stsp.name Received: from ted.stsp.name (ted.stsp.name [217.197.84.34]) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id o72ITpr3026422 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:29:51 +0200 Received: from ted.stsp.name (stsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ted.stsp.name (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o72ITot7001379; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:29:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from stsp@localhost) by ted.stsp.name (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o72ITn1P001940; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:29:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:29:49 +0200 From: Stefan Sperling To: Blair Zajac Cc: Nico Kadel-Garcia , Ryan Schmidt , Subversion Subject: Re: Unclear syntax for relative addressing of svn:externals, on RHEL 5, subversion-1.6.12 Message-ID: <20100802182949.GN3967@ted.stsp.name> Mail-Followup-To: Blair Zajac , Nico Kadel-Garcia , Ryan Schmidt , Subversion References: <3D042766-65D3-410F-9EA3-AF108842EBDC@ryandesign.com> <4C3B3C09.9070301@orcaware.com> <20100713121522.GC13310@ted.stsp.name> <4C3C8F7B.4000606@orcaware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C3C8F7B.4000606@orcaware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.3.5 (giant.haxx.se [80.67.6.50]); Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:30:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Friend: Friend On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 09:08:27AM -0700, Blair Zajac wrote: > On 07/13/2010 05:15 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > >I think we should discourage use of the old syntax in both the output > >of svn help and in the book. Diff to the help text below. > >Would this improve things? > > Sounds good to me. > > I think this last sentence starting with "The ambiguous format..." > should go before 1.4 is mentioned because it is relevant to the 1.5 > format. Good catch, thanks. Committed with further tweaks and some typos fixed in r981653. Sorry about the delay. Does anyone feel like submitting a similar patch to the book? In particular about making the book discourage use of the 1.4-and-earlier syntax? Thanks, Stefan