[tahoe-dev] CLI syntax

[Aleksandr Milewski]

On May 12, 2008, at 6:00 AM, Ben Laurie wrote:

> Brian Warner wrote:
>> The arguments to the 'cp' command refer to local files by default,  
>> unless an
>> alias: prefix is used. The LOCALTO/LOCALFROM arguments to get/put  
>> can only
>> refer to local files. The other arguments default to tahoe:, unless  
>> otherwise
>> specified.
>
> I think that's confusing. Consistency is preferable to brevity, IMO.


I agree with the reasoning, and disagree with the conclusion. I think  
consistency with cp/scp is important, and breaking that (effectively  
creating scp that requires you to specify localhost: ) is more  
confusing.