Dave,
Do you know of anything in place that would keep me from
submitting such a patch?
Take care,
Jeremy
On 10/15/07, David Glasser <glasser@davidglasser.net> wrote:
> On 10/15/07, Mark Phippard <markphip@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/15/07, Jeremy Whitlock <jcscoobyrs@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Mark,
> > > If other subcommands are affected by this, I would propose that we
> > > fix them all then. Not knowing whether an outputted path is a file or
> > > directory can be a pain to find the answer to usually requiring a
> > > server round trip. From a scripting perspective, this is problematic.
> > > I agree with consistency so I understand that if agreed upon, my
> > > patch would have to potentially touch many subcommands but in the end,
> > > I think having a visible way to distinguish file path from directory
> > > path would be a great update to Subversion's output.
> >
> > I don't really disagree, but I do not think we can change the format
> > of our output until 2.0. I believe it is part of the compatibility
> > rules for the API. I could be wrong, but I think I have heard that
> > before.
>
> At the very least we could add a kind="dir"/"file" attribute to the
> log --xml output. I'd apply a patch for that. (Also, diff
> --summarize --xml would be pretty straightforward to implement.)
>
> --dave
>
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> David Glasser | glasser_at_davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
>
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