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Re: --non-interactive still invokes editor?

From: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-05-02 22:49:49 CEST

kfogel@collab.net writes:

> Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt@satorlaser.com> writes:
> > I stumbled over the fact that an invocation of 'svn mkdir --non-interactive
> > $URL' in a script still fires up the editor. Yes, one could consider it a
> > programming mistake to not supply any logentry at all, but I would have
> > expected svn to then fail unless --force-log is supplied.
> >
> > The Book only talks about credentials/authentication, maybe that should be
> > clarified that it really only applies to those.
>
> I'm more inclined to treat this as a bug. "non-interactive" should
> mean non-interactive, and firing up an editor certainly doesn't fit
> the bill, whereas exiting with error would.
>
> Other developers: Agree? Disagree?

Hrm. This discussion has been had before. Some references:

   http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2004-12/0951.shtml
   http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-03/0045.shtml

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