Re: reposted feature request: assume 'help' as the argument when none is given and at least one is required

"Max Bowsher" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.eyebrowse.user,gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel
Message-ID <062701c504ca$1fc66dd0$e6ec6f83__17319.4719049663$1106869679$gmane$org@robinson.cam.ac.uk>
Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Hi
>
> To me, this seems unintuitive:
>
> boole:~# svn
> Type 'svn help' for usage.
>
> How about assuming that, when an svn command that takes arguments is
> given none, 'help' is implied as the argument.
>
> So 'svn' with no arguments would become 'svn help' however 'svn up'
> which is happy with no arguments doesn't.

No, this is deliberate.

"svn" is a meaningless errorful invocation. So, you get a message to that 
effect.

Errors should never auto-display usage, because then the error gets easily 
lost, made much less visible compared to the large help text.

Max.
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