[Svnmerge] Dellroad svnmerge web page

Blair Zajac blair at orcaware.com
Thu Feb 23 14:37:37 PST 2006


Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
>> Hi Archie,
>>
>> When one does a Google search for svnmerge, your page comes out on 
>> top. Congrats on that :)
>>
>> http://www.dellroad.org/svnmerge/index
>>
>> However, several of the links do not work, such as several to 
>> svn.collab.net, since we renamed svnmerge to svnmerge.sh to make space 
>> for svnmerge.py.
>>
>> Would you mind updating your page, given that many people probably 
>> refer to it?
>>
>> Here's a couple of things I found:
>>
>> 1) The svn.collab.net repository is now the official repository for 
>> the Python svnmerge.py, so if the link to Giovanni's Subversion 
>> repository be removed. Keeping the link to the Windows executable is 
>> find, as far as I understand.
>>
>> 2) Could the web page list both the Bourne shell and the Python 
>> version and the feature differences between them and links to them in 
>> svn.collab.net.  Some of the differences are listed at
>>
>> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/svnmerge.README
>>
>> 3) All the examples showing svnmerge commands may want to show them as 
>> svnmerge.sh, just to be clear on which version is being used.
> 
> 
> I'm happy to do all that but would rather the web page not refer to
> the old version of svnmerge at all at this point.
> 
> I don't think anyone is still using it (including me).
> 
> I've updated the web page.. take a look and let me know if I've
> missed anything.

[cc'ing svnmerge mailing list]

Archie,

Thanks!  Looks good.

One minor thing.  Maybe replace

   svnmerge is a simple shell script tool

with

   svnmerge is a tool

It's simple in practice, but getting over more complicated :)

Wonder if we should just remove svnmerge.sh from svn.collab.net?

Regards,
Blair



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