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Re: Don't release 'svn youngest'? [was: --strict vs --no-newline]

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 05:37:50 +0200

On 18.07.2014 20:05, Julian Foad wrote:
> Do we really want to release in 1.9 the 'svn youngest' command that was introduced recently?
>
> There are several kinds of 'youngest' rev we might want to ask for, and we already have the following ways of asking for several of them:
>
> svn info URL | grep 'Revision:'
> # head rev of repo
>
> svn info URL | grep 'Last Changed Rev:'
> # youngest last-committed rev in subtree at URL (with bubble up)
>
> svnversion WC_PATH
> # range of base revs in subtree at WC_PATH
>
> svnversion --committed WC_PATH
> # range of last-committed revs in subtree at WC_PATH
>
> while 'svn youngest' only tells us one of them: the youngest rev in the repository.
>
> Can I ask that we use one of these three other UIs instead.
>
> 1.
>
> Add a convenient way to get a single field from 'svn info', as has been proposed several times before.
>
> 2.
>
> Add an 'svnmucc youngest' subcommand instead, since I understand that the primary motivation was for users of 'svnmucc'.
>
> 3.
>
> svnversion URL
> # head rev of repo
>
> svnversion -c URL
> # range of last-committed revs in subtree at URL
>
> These correspond pretty closely to the existing WC target variants of 'svnversion', and also provide similar information to the two uses of 'svn info URL'.
>
> (Peg revisions should also be supported and should change the meaning to 'the last revision <= peg rev'. And before anybody points out that 'svnversion' has never been linked to RA code, I pre-emptively ask: so what?)

+1 to all of that.

-- Brane

-- 
Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion
WANdisco | Realising the impossibilities of Big Data
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Received on 2014-07-21 05:38:46 CEST

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