Re: Revived tutorial

Pedro Perez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.arch.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mark Flacy wrote:

> On 2006.03.28 11:46, Pedro Perez wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>   I have created a very simple patch that adds the percent sign (%)  
>> character to certain commands that did not have it.
>>
>>   Example-old:
>>   tla make-log
>>        ++log.hello-world--mainline--0.1--lord@@emf.net--2003-example
>>
>>
>>   Example-new:
>>   % tla make-log
>>        ++log.hello-world--mainline--0.1--lord@@emf.net--2003-example
>
>
> While that's nice, not everyone actually *uses* a percent character  
> as their prompt.  This also adds the possibility that someone will  
> perhaps enter the percent character as part of the command line.

True, but with this patch I was just trying to make every command 
consistent with every other command on the tutorial as it stand right 
now. If we agree that usage of either %, #, or $ is inconvenient or 
confusing to users, then we should remove them all.

So, what should it be?

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Pedro Perez
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