#964: make "-a" default option for GetComponents ---------------------------+------------------------------------------------ Reporter: rhaas | Owner: eric9 Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: GetComponents | Version: Keywords: | ---------------------------+------------------------------------------------ We seem to regularly receive support requests from users where GetComponents fails because they forgot to add the "-a" option. Since GetComponents is supposed to make checking out Cactus easier for novice users, I suggest changing its default options to reflect what is most likely required in this case. Having already the download of Cactus fail would turn me away from using it.
For the developer that actually require write access, we should all be computer and version-control savy enough to either change the checkout afterwards or modify the thorn list. Its just a 'svn switch --relocate', '$EDITOR .git/config' and '$EDITOR repos/carpet_hg/.hg/hgrc' after all.
So in summary I would like to suggest changing the default to "-a" possibly at the same time we change the defaults to --no-shallow