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Re: CvsNt port of 'cvs ls' subcommand


From: Derek Robert Price
Subject: Re: CvsNt port of 'cvs ls' subcommand
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:50:11 -0400
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CC'ing bug-cvs since these are rather general questions.

Alexander Taler wrote:

> + If you try to list a file that doesn't exist, cvs ls exits
> with no output: eg "cvs ls jaksdfjalsdfjasdklfjasfja".
> Shouldn't this generate an error?


Probably.

> + The ls command by default is not recursive. This is rather
> unusual for cvs commands.


Yes, I had considered that, and I decided that I preferred `cvs ls' to
look and behave more like the UNIX `ls' command rather than the other
CVS commands here since I assumed that the more common usage would be
to want to know what files were available locally, a la the UNIX ls.

Recursive output is still available, but I think that this provides
much more information than a casual user of `cvs ls' will want,
particularly on a large project.

Derek

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