Re: bad output format design issue: svn log -v format is not parseable :-(

On Monday 05 April 2004 14:54, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Saying this output is "not parseable" or "evil" is a bit strong :-).
>
> The output is, in a very rare edge case, ambiguous. If you create
> files whose names end in " (from ...)", you will have a problem, yes.
> Sorry for that -- perhaps we should have been better about escaping.
> Nevertheless, *do* you actually create such files? If not, the output
> is quite easy to parse.

But someone might do so sometime, and the universe likes to produce people
that do just these things from which other people think "this won't happen,
or happen rarily" ;-) It's always the same... and a filename ".*(from.*)" is
not all that unlikely.

In the normal command line output I can't think of an alternative as this
format also has the advantage of being easily parsed with a regexp, although
you can run into a bug if your regexp is not built carefully enough. But in
the XML output you could surely make this a tag property pretty easily, no ?

-- 
Marc Haisenko
Systemspezialist
Webport IT-Services GmbH
mailto: haisenko@webport.de
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