Gareth McCaughan <Gareth.McCaughan@pobox.com> writes:
> Imagine that Subversion gains some new feature, such as
> reserved checkouts, that associates extra state with each
> item in the working copy. Then it might be good for "svn st"
> or "svn st -v" to start showing that extra state.
>
> Unfortunately, that isn't possible because the output of
> those commands is supposed to be easy for other programs
> to understand, and at present the only way for those
> other programs to identify the fields in "svn st" output
> is to split each line of output into fixed-size chunks --
> and that would stop working if the format were changed
> at all.
Couldn't we just extend the `svn status' command to take the --xml
option, like `svn log'?
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Received on Mon Aug 5 20:53:07 2002