Re: svn propset from stdin

=?UTF-8?B?QnJhbmtvIMSMaWJlag==?= <brane@xbc.nu> writes:

> Brandon Ehle wrote:
>
> > Any idea how difficult it would be for me to modify "svn propset" to
> > take properties from stdin? The reason I want to do this is to allow
> > a script to append "svn:ignore"s via something like
> > > svn pg svn:ignore | someapp | svn ps svn:ignore
> > Or it there a better way to do this?
>
> Well, you could try
>
> $ env SVN_EDITOR=someapp svn propedit svn:ignore

Ben Collins either committed or perhaps only posted a patch that
implemented -F with '-' as the file, meaning, "read from the a file
which happens to be stdin". Would this do what you want?

I recall he had some problems on Windows with parts of the client
fighting for stdin, but...

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Received on Mon Oct 21 23:01:24 2002