Re: [BUG] svn commit ignores --non-interactive

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:58:14PM -0500, Jim Correia wrote:
> On Dec 22, 2004, at 2:36 PM, Philip Martin wrote:
>
> >--non-interactive applies to authentication prompts.
>
> The documentation isn't so specific. It simply says:
>
> --non-interactive : do no interactive prompting
>
> >If we are going to extend it to the log message then would it not make
> >more sense for
> >it to prevent use of the editor as well, i.e. require you to use
> >either -m or -F.
>
> I'm not sure about that.
>
> The reason that I ran into it was that I was using it in a scripted
> environment where it was appropriate to use the editor (i.e. I was
> sitting there ready to type a commit message), but the script wasn't
> attached to a TTY, so printing something to stdout/stderr and expecting
> to be able to read an answer back from stdin is wrong.
>
> My expectation was that this would be covered under by "do no
> interactive prompting."

Can't we just check to see if stdin is a tty? I suppose that's probably
not a portable solution. But I know a lot of unix apps use that to
decide if they should interactively propmpt.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
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"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
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