Re: [Issue 605] New - column headings for "svn status" output

issues@subversion.tigris.org wrote:

> + Commands that output information in columns (the ultimate
> + example being "svn status") should print column headings.
> + For example:
> +
> + text/props rev last mod & author file
> + ========== === ==================== =================
> + __ 931 931 kfogel .
> + _ 931 700 kfogel ./BUGS
> + _ 931 756 sussman ./COMMITTERS
> + _ 931 1 svn ./COPYING
> + _ 931 741 brane ./HACKING
> + _ 931 1 svn ./IDEAS
> + _ 931 736 kfogel ./INSTALL
> + _ 931 910 gstein ./Makefile.in
> + _ 931 1 svn ./NEWS
> + _ 931 487 fitz ./PORTING

Another suggestion is to specify the format of the output, in
other words, what columns and the order of the columns. For
example, rpm does this. From the rpm man page:

   You may specify the format that package information should be
   printed in. To do this, you use the

     --qf|--queryformat QUERYFMT

   option, followed by the QUERYFMT format string. Query formats
   are modifed versions of the standard printf(3) formatting....

I haven't looked at any of Subversions source code, I don't expect
this to be difficult to implement. Although I don't have time to
do this myself, I thought that I'd throw the idea out there for
others who might have more free time than me.

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Tim Moloney
ManTech Real-time Systems Laboratory
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