Re: "svn list -v" column alignment issue

On 21.12.2019 00:09, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's something wrong with "svn list -v" column alignment when
> there are author names with more than 8 characters. For instance,
> with the gcc repository:
>
> [...]
> 279442 jozefl Dec 16 12:02 libgcc/
> 278886 jvdelisle Dec 01 23:29 libgfortran/
> [...]

This is by design, it was a change made in 1.12.

https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.12.html#client-server-improvements

Yes, we realize that this makes simple output parsing harder, but the
alternative -- truncating author names at 8 characters -- was considered
worse.

-- Brane
Received on 2019-12-21 10:35:12 CET