Re: --dry-run

On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 15:18, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>
> > Couldn't you just have the argument parser turn a --dry-run commit or
> > update into a status request instead, and not even touch the published
> > APIs?
>
> Well, that might be a hacky way to cover "commit", but are we really
> interested in introducing new UI -- which we have to maintain,
> remember -- for "hacky ways"? I'm certainly not.

Your ornery user(s) can make their private 'svn' into a shell script
which specifically detects 'svn commit --dry-run' and runs 'svn status'
instead. :-)

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Received on Tue Apr 13 22:26:41 2004