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Re: --xml on all svn commands

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2005-09-27 18:37:14 CEST

Gregg Tavares wrote:

> Please excuse me if I'm breaking any kind of protocol. This is my
> first attempt at contributing.
>
> currently the --xml flag seems to only work on "svn list"

Also on "blame", "info", "log" and "status".

> Are there already plans to add it to all the other commands? Or, if
> not, does anyone mind if I add it and send in the patches?

I would certainly like to see the --xml flag supported in all commands
that produce output. Patches are welcome. But please, take the time to
write design proposals (and especially XML schema proposals) before
sending patches.

> For exmaple, I'm using "svn lock <file>". If the file is locked it
> returns something like
>
> 'file:folder\file.c' is already checked out by user 'gregg' in
> 'http://svn.domain.com/project/folder/file.c'
>
> Unfortunately
>
> 1) all that changes if you are not running in English Windows so you
> can't parse by word
> 2) filenames can have single quotes in them so trying to parse by
> single quotes won't work either.

Yup.

>
> Other commands have similar problems
>
> "svn status -u -v <file>"

But status isn't one of them. :)

>
> The first 6 characters are specified in but after that things are only
> separated by space according to the docs. So, if your filename has a
> space in it so much for trying to parse that output.
>
> Anyway, it seems like a couple of hours work to add the --xml option
> to all the commands if there isn't already plans. Is this a
> contribution I can make?

Ha ha. If you can do it in a couple of hours, I'll eat my left shoe. All
my left shoes! :)
Seriously, it's more work than you think.

-- Brane

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