Greg Stein wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 02:27:41PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
>> ...
>> Unfortunately, adding a changelist-name to the output of 'svn status'
>> would mean each line would now have *two* variable-length fields. And
>> I guess you guys are right -- it's not worth destroying the
>> streaminess of the status command just to show changelist groupings.
>> I guess Justin's suggestion is the best we could do.
>>
>
> Euh... that format breaks the machine-parsability of the lines. How do
> you know the file isn't named "foo.c (changelist 'borken')" ?? Answer
> is: you don't.
>
> I don't have any suggestions, but did want to call that out.
>
Even grouping status output by changelist would break parseability. I
suppose that people who feed the output into other programs and need
100% correct parsing are stuck with --xml anyway...
I do like the grouped status output better, though, because it's more
readable for /humans/. A "svn st --changelist" would also be useful -- i
expect it's an obvious feature, though.
-- Brane
Received on Thu Apr 20 09:24:35 2006