Re: [Issue 1039] Changed - ra_dav / svn cat : adds a blank line at start of file

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On Saturday 21 December 2002 17:54, issues@subversion.tigris.org wrote:
> + Here's the problem: programs traditionally echo the return after a
> + user enters a password at a prompt
>
> + I'm not sure there's a perfect solution to this. 'svn cat' and
> + password prompting just don't mix well.

I can't help but think that, barring line-buffer issues, the newline could
just be echoed to stderr instead of stdout (same for the password prompt).
After all, that is the purpose of stderr: a stream for messages that
shouldn't be redirected when redirecting the output into a file or pipe. Has
this already been discussed?

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Peter Davis
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Received on Sun Dec 22 07:57:35 2002