Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:10:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/37453: more suitable command-line in articles/releng/article.sgml Message-ID: <200204251810.g3PIA5735518@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/37453; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, Hideyuki KURASHINA <rushani@bl.mmtr.or.jp> Subject: Re: docs/37453: more suitable command-line in articles/releng/article.sgml Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:05:52 -0700 (PDT) --- Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> wrote: > From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> > To: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org > While cvs(1) really does accept 'up' as a synonym of 'update', > 'up' is not documented either in the manual page, or in the info pages > (the Hederqvist manual), or in the cvs --help-commands output, I still > think that it would be a better idea to use the conventional 'update'. > After all, 'update' is the action you want CVS to perform, right? > 'up' is not an action; 'up' is a direction; do you really want your > sources to go 'up' - like, 'up in smoke', 'up in flames', 'up into > the great blue yonder'? :) > > This is MHO, too :) Hehe, I understand. What we can also do is, to change the instruction in the releng article to 'cvs update', and also add... %% Synonyms: up %% ... to the cvs(1) manual page, and the CVS info manual. What does everyone think of this? Regards. -- Hiten __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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