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RE: text that pops up in your $EDITOR

From: Sander Striker <striker_at_apache.org>
Date: 2002-01-23 11:06:36 CET

> I have another question for you people!
>
> Let's assume we invoke 'svn commit [files]' and an editor pops up for you to
> fill in your commit message.
>
> In the old CVS days, all text lines that start with CVS: are filtered off
> when the message is uses, and thus all sorts of info can be shown on those
> lines. If we removed, added and changed files, they would appear in a style
> similar to this:
>
> CVS: Modified files:
> CVS: file1 file2 file3
> CVS:
> CVS: Removed files:
> CVS: file4 file5
> CVS:
> CVS: Added files:
> CVS: file6 file7
>
> As we have a much more complex situation in Subversion, with more changes
> being detected and even changes on contents or properties being separate, I
> have this suggestion:
>
> We include the 'svn status [target]' output in the buffer, only prefixed with
> SVN:
>
> It would instead make a buffer that looks a bit like this:
>
> SVN: Status report on the targets just about to get committed:
> SVN:
> SVN: M ./file1
> SVN: M ./file2
> SVN: M ./file3
> SVN: D ./file4
> SVN: D ./file5
> SVN: A ./file6
> SVN: A ./file7
>
> It isn't quite as human readable as the CVS version, but I like the
> simplivity in re-using the same output format to describe which "status" you
> want to commit.
>
> I'm all ears. What do you think?

Simple but effective. I like it.

Sander

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