[tahoe-dev] CLI syntax

[Ben Laurie]

Aleksandr Milewski wrote:
> 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.

I am suggesting that the way you specify a file should be the same in 
every context.

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