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Re: [GSOC]Show progress output

From: John Peacock <john.peacock_at_havurah-software.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:21:07 -0400

David O'Shea wrote:
> On 26/03/2009 13:02, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 01:23:28AM +0100, Branko Cibej wrote:
>>> However, before you design fancy progress meters, you should consider
>>> how they interact with the current comman-line output. The output of SVN
>>> commands is meant to be easily parseable by wrapper scripts, etc; the
>>> progress meter must not break that feature.
>> You could always show a progress bar by default, but provide a command
>> line switch which scripts can use to disable the progress bar.
>
> Perhaps disabled by the "--non-interactive" switch?

I don't think that would be acceptable. In the past, the Subversion
project has treated CLI output as falling under the compatibility
guarantees. You could /ask/ for the progress output (think RPM's -h and
rsync's --progress options), but I don't think it can be the default.

John

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