Re: Promoting mucc to a full fledged tool

C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Karl Fogel wrote:
>> Or it should just be a command shell mode in the svn client... ?
>
> I used to be in favor of this, but now I'm not so sure. The idea of a shell
> mode for 'svn' that seems most intuitive to me is simply an interactive way
> to do all the other things that 'svn' can do today with multiple subcommand
> invocations. But MUCC is strictly about doing a single particular task that
> you *can't* do with a string of 'svn' subcommands today. A shell mode for
> 'svn' probably needs to be a little more full-featured, able to examine
> working copies and repositories alike -- MUCC's use-case doesn't care about
> working copies. Also, I need MUCC to maintain a non-interactive mode.

Definitely keep it non-interactive. I ended writing a script to crawl
our repository looking for bad tags (some 20+) and appending a rather
long list of command line arguments to mucc to fix the tags in a single
commit.

> If all these things can be satisfied by introducing 'svn shell', that's cool
> -- I don't think I'd fight it. But I guess I'm thinking "baby steps" here.
> contrib/client-side/mucc.c --> subversion/svn-mucc/main.c is a
> super-trivial change. And in anticipation of this move, I even recently
> rewrote the mucc test script to sorta-kinda use our Python test framework.

> If folks are cool with introducing svn-mucc, I'm volunteering for the task.

+1.

Regards,
Blair

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