Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> On May 2, 2005, at 4:06 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
>
> > Cheers!
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> You're right, Uli. It seems that --non-interactive currently means
> "don't prompt for authentication" and nothing else. It has no effect
> on *any* subcommand's ability to launch $EDITOR. (That is, $EDITOR
> is always launched, no matter what.)
>
> Developers: should we document --non-interactive more precisely? Or
> should we fail to launch $EDITOR in the presence of this option?
I know this conversation has been had before, and that some folks
(perhaps/probably even myself) were thinking that --non-interactive
doesn't need to affect the use of $EDITOR because one can always do
--editor-cmd=/bin/false or something. Whatever I used to think, I've
since come around to thinking --non-interactive should be a one-stop
shop for making an invocation of the command-line client completely
scriptable, free of auth, log message, or any other kinds of prompts.
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Received on Tue Jul 5 23:09:58 2005