Karl Fogel wrote:
>Would like some other's opinions on this (apparently, at least one
>other person was not confused by the byte count).
>
Forget persons, a script parser will be confused by the byte count
unless you tell it how many bytes there are in a newline separator.
Don't you just love interop. :-)
>I understand what you're saying about how machine-oriented information
>doesn't belong in user output. On the other hand, Subversion has
>always been trying to use the same output format for both humans and
>machines wherever possible, because it's a simplicity and maintenance
>win -- that is, if the readability compromises aren't too great.
>Right now, IMHO, the compromise is fairly slight, and worth the gains.
>
>Adding a space before every line has its own disadvantages -- what if
>people were trying to be careful about rightmost column? -- and using
>a rich output format is worse (imagine the quoting complexity *that*
>might introduce, for certain log messages), IMHO. The byte count at
>least leaves the log message itself untouched.
>
>So we're +1 + -1 == 0 right now, hmmm, would like others' thoughts on
>this.
>
>-K
>
>Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
>
>>I've seen it to, so I believe it. But a byte count for *user* output isn't
>>the right solution.
>>
>>>So we cannot depend on the separator. The byte count is not so
>>>confusing, really (I mean, were *you* confused, or are you just
>>>assuming that other people might get confused?).
>>>
>>Yes. I got confused. Maybe I'm an old fart who's going senile, but I saw "%d
>>bytes" and went "wtf?". Then I saw the strlen(msg) and went "huh?!". And
>>then finally it dawned on me the purpose of that field.
>>
>>I like the idea of indenting each line by one space, keeping the -----
>>marker, and dropping the byte count.
>>
>>Or, creating a rich output format.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>-g
>>
>>--
>>Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
>>
>
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