Re: --strict vs --no-newline

Johan Corveleyn wrote:

> Julian Foad wrote:
> ...
>> Do we really want a new subcommand "svn youngest" for this?
>>
>> We already have:
>>
>>   svnversion
>>     # youngest rev in a WC
>>
>>   svn info $URL | grep 'Revision:'
>>     # head revision of repo in which $URL exists
>
> Not exactly. It would give you "Revision: 12345", not "12345".

Yes. The point is, the information is already there, and is accessed through the 'svn info' command.

> I think it would be nice if 'svn info' supported a "key"
> option, so:
>
>     svn info --key Revision $URL
>     12345
>
> (or --name, or --whatever).
>
> Then we'd also have:
>
>     svn info --key "Working Copy Root Path" some/path
>     C:\MyWorkingCopy

Yes: without selecting a specific colour to paint this bike shed, I like this kind of interface. The "svn info" UI is already designed to display this kind of information, so let's just make it display it in a more convenient form rather than adding new subcommand for "youngest" and then deciding whether to implement a new subcommand again for each additional bit of info that we might like to access such as repo-UUID, file size, last committed rev, and so on.

Also: if the primary use case for adding 'svn youngest' was for use in 'svnmucc' work flows, then maybe 'svnmucc' should be providing a 'youngest' command or some other kind of solution to that particular problem-space.

- Julian
Received on 2014-06-18 01:13:33 CEST