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Re: [PATCH] Add verbose support to blame

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-02-18 22:24:43 CET

Mark Benedetto King <mbk@lowlatency.com> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 03:27:34PM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 14:50, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> > > I think 'svn blame -v' is definitely a cool new thing, but I'm -0.5 for
> > > nominating it for svn 1.0.1.
> > >
> > > svn 1.0.1 is about fixing serious bugs... none of the bugs was serious
> > > enough to hold up the 1.0 release, but they're all still serious.
> >
> > I agree. 1.0.x should not be adding any new features. (We can fix
> > minor bugs as well as serious ones, as long as the fixes are simple, but
> > this is not a fix at all.)
> >
>
> It's not a big leap to say that a new feature is like a new function;
> downwards compatibility would be broken.

Hmm... perhaps I just remove the --quiet option I just added to
svndumpfilter and save that addition for the 1.1 branch.

I can see how command-line interfaces are similar to APIs, especially
when you think of scripts wrapping our binaries like functions calling
functions. We shouldn't be changing our programs' option contracts or
their output.

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