Re: svn add

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From: Arthur Bergman
Subject: Re: svn add
Date: 14:15 on 11 May 2005
On 11 May 2005, at 13:38, Phil!Gregory wrote:

> * Nicholas Clark <nick@xxxx.xxx> [2005-05-11 12:13 +0100]:
>> $ sudo svn --username=nick add ...
>> Subcommand 'add' doesn't accept option '--username arg'
>> Type 'svn help add' for usage.
>>
>> All the rest do.
>
> Actually, add, cleanup, info, resolved, and revert don't.  Or, put 
> another
> way, only the commands that can interact with a repository take
> --username.  I suppose you can argue that the inconsistency is hateful,
> but it's consistent with subversion's model of remote versus local
> actions, and it's good to understand that model when using subversion.
>

It is also not what the manual says should happen...... alias svn svn 
--username=abergman  doesn't work because of this... very hateful.

Now if it could read some env variable for the username it would be cool



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