On 10/15/07, Jeremy Whitlock <jcscoobyrs@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> When writing a script I recently ran across a situation that
> caused me a good bit of heart ache. When you run "svn diff
> --summarize" and you get the output, there is no way to distinguish
> between files and directories. Here is an example:
>
> $ svn diff --summarize
> http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/branches/ctypes-python-bindings
> -r24577:HEAD
> .....
> A http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/branches/ctypes-python-bindings/test
> .....
>
> There is no way to tell in a scripted/automatic fashion whether "test"
> is a file or directory. I would like to propose that we make our
> commands display visible differences between files and directories.
> The way it would work is that all directories would end with a
> trailing slash. This makes viewing the output and making a better
> analysis more exact and it also gives script writers the ability to
> distinguish between files and directories without having to do a
> server round trip. The only way to do this now is with some sort of
> server round trip and it shouldn't be necessary. What do you think?
> If you are interested in seeing this in the core, I can submit a
> patch.
I know people have complained about this with log output as well. I
am not sure why we stuck with current output, but I imagine diff
--summarize is just being consistent.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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Received on Mon Oct 15 18:58:34 2007