Re: Proposal: --no-props switch for 'log', 'st' and 'diff'

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Hyrum K. Wright
<hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Mark Phippard wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Hyrum K. Wright
>> <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>>> In using merge tracking with 1.5.x and other branches, I've occasionally been
>>> annoyed by the fact that mergeinfo mods can often overshadow the meat of a
>>> change. I'd like to add a '--no-props' flag to 'log', 'st', and 'diff' which
>>> would simply cause the subcommand to ignore property changes. It wouldn't be
>>> the default, but it would clean up output and make using merge tracking a bit
>>> easier.
>>>
>>> I envision '--no-props' to be an all-or-nothing measure, initially, but we if
>>> the demand was there, we could further expand it to '--without-prop FOO' which
>>> would only omit changes to property FOO.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Set aside merge tracking for a second. Do you think there would be
>> any need for this feature? If not, then it seems like the option
>> ought to be about specifically excluding the svn:mergeinfo property
>> and nothing else. Something like --ignore-mergeinfo or
>> --no-mergeinfo.
>
> Seeing as how mergeinfo is built upon the generic property infrastructure, I'd
> rather build something which is property-centric, and could apply to other
> properties also. I could conceivably see how one might want to filter out other
> property-only changes, to properties such as svn:eol-style or svn:ignore. I can
> also imagine that other projects may have project-specific properties for which
> this could be useful.

I am obviously making the reverse argument here though. In other
words, I envision people finding this property information useful,
where as the svn:mergeinfo information is generally not useful to
them. I think a switch to shut off all property information is too
coarse. It'd be interesting to know if we have any enhancement filed
in the tracker to hide this information for other properties.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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