On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 11:37 +0200, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Arwin Arni <arwin_at_collab.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 June 2011 02:51 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> >>
> >> Please convince me why having svn_client_bisect() is needed.
> >>
> >> There are already THREE scripts out there that implement cmdline 'svn
> >> bisect':
> >> one on CPAN, one in Peter's Debian package, one that Julian just posted.
> >> (And we got one sent to the issue tracker a while ago, but the CPAN one
> >> was more featureful)
> >
> > Wouldn't having it as a part of our API improve the feature set of all the
> > clients using it?
>
> +1
>
> It would be nice to have a standard/good implementation of this in svn
> core. So it's available to people that don't even have perl (or python
> or whatever scripting language) installed (90% of my dev colleagues
> around here :-)).
>
> It seems like a useful feature.
Please be careful to distinguish between having an "svn bisect" command
in the "svn" client versus having an svn_client_bisect() API in
libsvn_client. This thread is muddling those two things.
- Julian
Received on 2011-06-21 11:42:00 CEST