Den mån 27 nov. 2023 kl 20:29 skrev Daniel Sahlberg < daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com>: [...]
> I looked into apr/misc/unix/getopt.c to see if there was any way of making > "-" a legal argument but I couldn't find anything. Thus I'm suggesting > making the help text a little bit more clear: > > [[[ > Index: subversion/svnmucc/svnmucc.c > =================================================================== > --- subversion/svnmucc/svnmucc.c (revision 1914148) > +++ subversion/svnmucc/svnmucc.c (working copy) > @@ -286,7 +286,9 @@ > " mv SRC-URL DST-URL : move SRC-URL to DST-URL\n" > " rm URL : delete URL\n" > " put SRC-FILE URL : add or modify file URL with contents > copied from\n" > - " SRC-FILE (use \"-\" to read from > standard input)\n" > + " SRC-FILE (use \"-\" to read from > standard input,\n" > + " but only if preceeded by -- and in > which case no\n" > + " options can follow. \"-\" only makes > sense once)\n" > " propset NAME VALUE URL : set property NAME on URL to VALUE\n" > " propsetf NAME FILE URL : set property NAME on URL to value read > from FILE\n" > " propdel NAME URL : delete property NAME from URL\n" > ]]] > > The "\"-\" only makes sense once" is because stdin can't be rewinded and > thus can't be put into more than once file. If several put actions (with - > as SRC-FILE) are used, the second file will be empty. > > Does this make sense (in particular to our native english speakers)? > Nathan suggested a slightly simpler way of wording the help message in [1]. I've committed that exact help text in r1914222 and nominated for backport in 1914223. Kind regards, Daniel [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/xrvwfdgqmjzqhv3q5sv1jhbcry8cdsly
