Johan Corveleyn wrote on Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 23:23:58 +0200:
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Gabriela Gibson
> <gabriela.gibson_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Does --invoke-diff-cmd support the "simple invocation style of
> >> --diff-cmd" as well? I.e. can I do 'svnlook diff -r3 $REPOS
> >> --invoke-diff-cmd /usr/bin/diff' and get the same result as with
> >> --diff-cmd?
> >>
> > No, -- invoke-diff-cmd just takes whatever you give it, substitutes ;f1 ...
> > ;l3 and passes that expansion on to your diff command.
> >
> > I changed the help string in svnlook.c with the idea that it will move
> > people towards using invoke-diff-cmd (which does not have diff-cmd's
> > restrictions)
>
> I don't think changing svnlook's help text will influence how people
> use 'svn'.
I'll go futher: I don't think changing svn's help text influences how
people use 'svn'. For example, '-N' has been deprecated for years and
I still use it occasionally --- because it's less typing than
--depth=files.
> The audiences tend to be quite different (svnlook's users
> are mainly svn admins, which might be 0.1% of all svn users). I think
> it's more important that svnlook and svn are consistent (also in their
> help texts).
>
> >, but as you rightly point out, one man's restrictions are
> > another man's labour saving device :-)
> >
> > So I don't know what to do here, I can just change the help string back and
> > we keep diff-cmd around(and it keeps life simple for everyone) or, I can
> > made all the other help strings match the deprecation notice.
>
> I think 'diff-cmd' should stick around un-deprecated. I think people
> would see it as a regression if they can't just run 'svn diff
> --diff-cmd /usr/bin/diff' anymore but have to run 'svn diff
> --invoke-diff-cmd <provide all the right arguments myself>'. That's a
> lot more typing :-).
>
> Perhaps you could say that --diff-cmd ARG is now a shorthand for
> --invoke-diff-cmd ARG $somethingsomething, to correlate the two, but
> I'm not sure. It might be a way to demonstrate the use of
> --invoke-diff-cmd though, as an example.
My usual use-case for --diff-cmd is 'svn diff --diff-cmd =diff -x -pU5'
(that invokes /usr/bin/diff -pU5).
Received on 2013-07-08 23:29:07 CEST