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Re: [Svnmerge] [PATCH] svnmerge.py: Make sure the head dir (wc) is fromthe same repository

From: Daniel Rall <dlr_at_collab.net>
Date: 2006-04-06 18:48:06 CEST

On Thu, 06 Apr 2006, Madan S. wrote:
...
> On Thursday 06 Apr 2006 3:28 am, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
...
> > +1 on the concept, but I don't like the entries parsing: it would be the
> > first time svnmerge depends on the working copy format instead of blindly
> > relying on the "svn" command line client.
>
> Was talking to David James yesternight and he was telling me the same. I
> understand. But I would like to make an obvious point here: The output format
> of the svn commandline is more susceptible to change than the working copy
> data format itself. :)

This "obvious point" is not correct. The WC format was changed
pre-1.0, and has changed again in 1.4. Even more significant changes
we being discussed just yesterday on IRC (apparently lundblad has even
prototyped some of them). The command output is, to an extent, also
part of Subverion's "API" promise (it's meant to be machine-parsable,
and many many programs out there wrap the command-line's output).

-- 
Daniel Rall

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