AW: --strict vs --no-newline

Hi,

Von: Peter Samuelson [mailto:peters_at_p12n.org]
> [Julian Foad]
> > 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
>
> As Johan has already noted, it's slightly more complicated. Let me
> add the wrinkle that you also need to make sure LC_MESSAGES is set to
> a known language, as "Revision:" is a localized string. (My scripts
> tend to say things like:
>
> LC_ALL=C svn info $URL | awk '/Revision:/{print $2}'
>
> You're correct, of course, that a whole subcommand just to get
> information that is already easily available, even if it does require
> awk and an environment variable, seems a bit much.

Don't forget that "svn info" and "svn status" have a "--xml" mode.

Their output is intended to be machine parseable and can be processed (for example using XSLT or xml-coreutils) in an locale-independent way.

Maybe you should have a look into this?

Best regards

Markus Schaber

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Received on 2014-06-19 11:17:15 CEST