Re: [PATCH] Do 'svn log --xml --incremental'

Nuutti Kotivuori <naked@iki.fi> writes:
> Well, yes - but what this means is that you can prepend to a
> non-incremental log invocation, but you can't append to it. I think
> that's a bit weird - I would expect that you can append an incremental
> log to a normal log, but not prepend. Perhaps the incremental option
> should suppress the beginning separator, not the ending? Anyway, this
> is a different discussion.

Appending is less useful with log messages than with other sorts of
data, since log message files are reversed: they tend to have the
newest data at the beginning of the file rather than the end.

> Concatenating several 'svn log --xml --incremental' invocations is not
> going to give you a well-formed document either. It lacks the XML
> declaration and the document would have several root elements, where
> as only one is allowed.

Right, but it gives you something that *is* valid when wrapped between
a start and end element.

> Thanks, committed.

Cool.

> I'll probably be revising this thing when a cleanup is done on the XML
> output format (and a DTD is made for it) - currently it's pretty
> suboptimal, especially on the changed paths section.

Okay.

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Received on Tue Oct 29 23:15:31 2002