Re: 'svn log --diff' foils log output parsers

On 06/24/2011 01:35 PM, Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 24.06.2011 17:50, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>> Having read and considered the replies received thus far, I'm dubbing this a
>> non-issue and moving on. Thanks for the feedback, all who provided it.
>
> Just for the record, this same issue has existed since "svn log" first
> accepted the --verbose flag. I've not heard any screaming, so either
> people don't parse "svn log" outputat all, or they don't use -v (or now
> --diff), or they can handle the different output that these options produce.
>
> Either way, not our problem.

'svn log --verbose' existed before our 1.0 release, though, and has a
reliable and trivially explainable affect on the parsing algorithm. Hardly
an interesting comparison.

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