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Re: Changelist support for svn patch?

From: Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:43:45 +0100

"C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato_at_collab.net> writes:

> On 04/17/2013 06:43 AM, Philip Martin wrote:
>> [dev CC'd]
>>
>> Nick <nospam_at_codesniffer.com> writes:
>>
>>> The 'patch' subcommand does not seem to support applying a changelist
>>> description to the files that are part of the patch. Any plans to
>>> support this?
>>>
>>> (Should I be asking this on the dev list?)
>>
>> That sounds like a useful feauture. The list of files affected by patch
>> is not always readily available to pass to the changelist command.
>>
>> Would this behaviour be useful for other commands?
>
> Most of our other commands have explicitly provided targets, so adding a
> changelist to those targets is a simple modification to the previous command
> issued at the prompt.
>
> For some commands, the targets aren't all explicit, but the resulting set is
> trivial to reproduce with 'svn changelist' anyway. For example, you could
> run 'svn propset -R svn:eol-style=native', which will only touch files, but
> then 'svn changelist -R' will likewise touch those same files.
>
> 'svn merge' comes to mind as one that, like patch, does not always have
> explicitly named targets.

Yes, merge is another candidate for this behaviour.

> It might be convenient for users if we supplied a sort of
> "add-affected-items-to-this-changelist" option to all of our
> schedule-a-working-copy-change types of subcommands.

The behaviour looks simple to define for 'patch' and 'merge', I was
thinking about 'svn add --force' which marks all the unversioned files
for addition. I don't know which files a user would expect to be added
to the changelist? Just the newly added files, all the added files, all
the files?

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