Re: Feature request: tsvn: url enhancement

Kevin Radke wrote:
> Peter McNab wrote:
>> Kevin Radke wrote:
>>> Stefan Küng wrote:
>>>> the-moog wrote:
>>>>> I have been tasked with migrating/interoperating from MKS to SVN, this
>>>>> process will take some time, even years.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is no way to integrate both applications fully, so one way round
>>>>> it is to invent SVNLinks (see my other post)
>>>>>
>>>>> I have written a rather complicated batch file that allows a link to
>>>>> be placed, such that clicking the link checks out the contents of that
>>>>> link to the current folder.
>>>>> But at the moment, the tsvn: links check out only the HEAD. I have
>>>>> made the batch file understand a bookmark in the link file (a standard
>>>>> windows url file) but it would be nice if TSVN did this itself as it
>>>>> would be useful to others.
>>>>> e.g. Click this link to use TSVN to check out lastest stable version
>>>>
>>>> Why don't you create a tag for the latest stable version?
>>>>
>>>>> 1: It returns 0 as an errorlevel, even when there is an error, it
>>>>> should return the same as svn
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, TSVN is *not* a command line utility and can't return proper
>>>> return values.
>>>
>>> Values return from main() or the win32 API call ExitProcess() are
>>> returned correctly when a win32 GUI application is called from the
>>> command line. (Lower 8 bits is all that is used.) At the very
>>> least success/failure - 0/1 should be doable.
>>
>> I can confirm making use of ExitProcess in a non "Console" app but
>> that was in a Delphi compiled app many years ago.
>
> To do it "right", in the TortoiseSVN sense, it would require 2 separate
> executables. Windows does have the annoying problem that a "GUI"
> app is launched asynchronously, and a "console" app will always
> flash a console box. To workaround this, one could make the
> current TortoiseProc.exe a console application, but actually
> launch it from explorer with a wrapper to suppress the console
> box. Or one would need to build a wrapper around TortoiseProc.exe
> to "do the right thing" and get synchronous behavior when launched
> from the command line.
>
> Both of these options are a little hacky, and I doubt the
> developers would really want to support them.
>
> I guess what would be coolest would be to create a project
> to include TortoiseSVN like prompt dialogs, but with the
> command line svn syntax. Sorta like a hybrid.
>
> If there was enough interest in others supporting a
> command line based TortoiseSVN.exe executable, would the
> devs be willing to include it with TortoiseSVN?

Before this goes any further:

* I know that ExitProcess() also works for GUI apps, but I have no
intention to hack MFC just to properly return such a value (yes, I'd
have to hack MFC here or create some other very ugly hack, since TSVN is
dialog based, and a dialog must return FALSE so the message queue can
stop and the application exit).
* I also know that there is a way to get a console back, but that never
works fully (tried that with SubWCRev once: worked for the default
windows console, but no other console or some other scripting engines):
now there are two SubWCRev exes

TSVN is a GUI app and not intended for scripting. The CL client should
be used for that: use the right tool for the right job.

Stefan

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