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Re: "svn ls" too complex?

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2002-07-29 16:57:39 CEST

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Is there a way to use "svn ls" to simply display a list of the
> directory entries at a given Subversion URL? This is what scripts
> need, after all.
>
> Is there a reason that this isn't the default behavior, for
> consistency with the Unix command?
>
> I feel like, having overridden Greg Stein's objection that this isn't
> core Subversion functionality, we have gone off into the land of
> fluffy features which look cool but aren't really necessary or even
> all that useful. I do think "svn ls" is core functionality, but that
> core function is to get a list of the directory entries, not to
> display them in a pretty table along with other information about
> them.

I think it's hard to make claims about what scripts (or people) need
from "svn ls", when we don't have any concrete examples yet. Maybe
this is why it's so easy to disagree on how the feature should look.

But, in the case of a script, since the entry starts in a consistent
column, isn't that enough?

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