Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Hmm. Lets see. > > "cvs foo": > Big spew of commands. Like "git foo". > > "svn foo": > Unknown command: 'foo' > Type 'svn help' for usage. > > Both are considered to be more newbie friendly then Git. So clearly > SVN's output of almost nothing is friendly. And so is CVS' > big spew of frequently used commands. Either way is apparently > newbie friendly. > > Though I find SVN's message a little insulting, asking me to type. > I know I have to type the command, thanks. On the contrary, I consider CVS and current Git output more insulting, as it assumes I forgot all the commands every time I made a typo. The polite part of the message is to point out a typo, as "Unknown command 'foo'" above. The "Type "svn help" for usage" part is just a reminder for complete newbies, which doesn't take too much space and can be reasonably ignored by experienced users. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
