Re: svn blame output with long user names

"Erik Huelsmann" <e.huelsmann@gmx.net> writes:
> Where blame breaks indenting on long user names. I think this has been
> addressed for 'svn ls' and 'svn st' by showing only the first 10
> characters or so of the long user name.

I haven't tested the behavior lately, but I thought we decided not to
do that for 'ls' and 'st' (after trying it)? If we are using an
unconditional constant width in 'st', it's apparently long enough to
fit "jszakmeister"...

> It seems this is another case where the same applies. The action to be
> taken: create an issue? Immediate takers?

I'm very uncomfortable losing information like that, if we can avoid
it.

With 'svn blame', we have all the usernames before we output anything,
right? So we could choose a width based on that set. There's no
pressing need for an unconditionally fixed width, as the output would
be automatically parseable even with variable width. The main reason
to have the width fixed within a given invocation is for human
readability -- so it's not important that the width be the same as it
was in some other invocation.

-K

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Received on Sun Jan 4 23:44:02 2004