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Note that source control in particular is particularly amenable to the command line, since the output of source control commands is blobs of text that refers to
by mquander 15y ago
Note that source control in particular is particularly amenable to the command line, since the output of source control commands is blobs of text that refers to text files on disk; grepping around in it and wanting to access, process, or modify those files by name is a common operation.
- adrianmsmith 15y agoI'm not sure I agree with that; I mean I use TortoiseSVN and before that TortoiseCVS as my main interface to version control, and have done for the last 10 years. It works perfectly and I don't feel I'm missing the command-line at all. (A goal of Subversion was that its command-line commands produce output which is both easily parsable by humans and machines. But still, I never use it.)