Re: Parseable output: --xml option for more commands

Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
> I think the rule of thumb should be that any data whose set of values
> we can't know in advance should be in an element, not an attribute,
> for the simple reason that attribute contents have more restrictions.
>
> By this rule, the date, size, type and revision number can be
> attributes, but file name and author cannot.

+1, and I hope someday we can fix our .svn/entries files to be this way.

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Received on Wed Jan 19 19:49:02 2005