Re: Format of svn command output

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:14:59PM +0100, Arild Fines wrote:
> Steve Greenland wrote:
> > I think the output of all the commands is in a "structured format".
> > That is, some effort has gone into making the output parseable, and
> > the structure is not modified lightly.
>
> Some of the core developers seem to disagree with you:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2069

Well, I'm not sure that pointing out flaw in one particular instance
is "disagreeing" with my general point, but sure, the assumption that
usernames would not contain spaces is a bug w.r.t. parsing the output
of "svn status". OTOH, if your environment doesn't use such names, then
you're okay. In general, the output of svn commands is pretty well
thought out for further processing, particularly for the occasional
adhoc unix pipeline.

And if someone want to define a general XML schema for svn output, and
implement it, I certainly wouldn't object.

Steve

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