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Re: Too much information in diff header?

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_red-bean.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:41:37 -0400

"Eric Lee" <eric_at_myprojects.srhost.info> writes:
> May I express my ideas ?
>
> 1.) May be shorten it to show only date information

Even if we shorten it, it will still push past 80 columns in most cases.

> 2.) Given an option on %AppData%\subversion\config or svnserve.conf
> to allow users decide whether to show or not.

We could do that. But even then, we still must decide what the default
should be; that's what this conversation is really about, I think.

> A console on GUI-based linux and windows have option to allow
> wider characters to displayed on screen.
> ( Yes, althrough there are few people using GUI console)

Oh, lots of people use wide consoles. But still, we should try to
conserve horizontal space -- no matter how wide your console, there can
always be a path that's too long for it. Minimizing the number of such
paths is still a worthy goal.

-Karl

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