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Re: [Locking] svn up output

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2005-01-06 03:28:37 CET

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>
> On Jan 5, 2005, at 7:30 PM, Philip Martin wrote:
>
>> "Max Bowsher" <maxb@ukf.net> writes:
>>
>>> Philip Martin wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Peter N. Lundblad" <peter@famlundblad.se> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't want to use the third column. One possibility is to write
>>>>> something on the next line like:
>>>>> U path
>>>>> Lock remvoed.
>>>>> path2
>>>>> Lock removed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's inconvenient for a script to have to parse multiple lines like
>>>> that. How about
>>>>
>>>> U path
>>>> B path
>>>> U path2
>>>> S path2
>>>
>>>
>>> But, lock-changes are not text-changes. What if there are both to
>>> report?
>>
>>
>> My example above reports both.
>>
>>> I think we *need* to add another column.
>>
>>
>> I think we have to add a column or a line.
>>
>>> Yes, it will break some scripts, but really, *anything* we change will
>>> break some scripts, and we absolutely *must* show lock changes in
>>> update output.
>>
>>
>> Some scripts will break if we add a column, some will break if we add
>> a line, but if we add a line then only people using locks will see
>> anything change.
>>
>
> Well, here's an argument for adding a new column (instead of a new
> line): I think it's much more readable to have exactly one line per
> path. Right now, we only violate that rule when there's a replacement:
>
> D foo.c
> A foo.c
>
> ...and there's an open issue for that anyway, claiming that it should
> print 'R' instead.

And I'm more and more of the opinion that relying on fixed-width
tabulated output in scripts is fragile at best. Or to turn this around,
you'll never get both user-readable and fixed-format machine-readable
output at the same time; sooner or later one side must yield, and I
think it's more important that users see something they can understand..

That's why I suggested that every SVN command that produces console
output shoudl have an --xml version. (And I'm sure psvn would be
delighted if we had a --lisp version, too :-)

-- Brane

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