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Re: Enhance proplist to show files without properties

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2007b_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:49:54 -0600

On Feb 6, 2008, at 16:44, sebb wrote:

> On 06/02/2008, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Feb 6, 2008, at 15:10, sebb wrote:
>>
>>> Further to http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2319
>>> I'd like to suggest adding a flag to proplist to show all file
>>> names,
>>> not just those with properties.
>>>
>>> This would make it much easier to scan files for missing properties.
>>>
>>> It's not really feasible to use SVN list - as far as I can tell,
>>> this
>>> always talks to the server, wich can generate a lot of traffic.
>>> Besides, one then has to combine the output from the two commands.
>>>
>>> Would anyone else find this enhancement useful?
>>
>> As Karl said in the above ticket, a small script combining the output
>> of svn ls and svn proplist is the recommended solution. "svn ls
>> $REPO" does talk to the repo over the network, but "svn ls
>> $WORKINGCOPY" does not, and uses only the local working copy.
>
> In that case, the SVN help message is wrong:
>
> $ svn help ls
> list (ls): List directory entries in the repository.
> usage: list [TARGET[@REV]...]
>
> List each TARGET file and the contents of each TARGET directory as
> they exist in the repository. If TARGET is a working copy path, the
> corresponding repository URL will be used. If specified, REV
> determines
> in which revision the target is first looked up.
>
> The default TARGET is '.', meaning the repository URL of the current
> working directory.
>
> Also, I can see the network activity light when I try svn ls, and I
> get prompted for a password for some repositories that require
> authentication even for read access.

Sorry, you're right. I think I've made this mistake before... [smacks
self]

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