Re: Feature request: Really verbose status information

I have a PHP script that does my Subversion log for most of my users
(even the developers). I use the "--xml" parameter and then use a
style sheet to format the log output. It would be pretty easy to add a
key to the statuses on that log.

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David Weintraub
qazwart_at_gmail.com
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Holger Hellmuth <hellmuth_at_ira.uka.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> one thing that is confusing for non-heavy users of subversion are the cryptic symbols on
> svn status reports of the command line client. There are 20 symbols that can appear on the
> report, too much for a casual user. Now what does 'X' mean again?
>
> On the other hand most will see only a subset of the symbols most of the time and svn help
> status lists the flags (which usually means some scrolling in the windows history as the
> help output has 90 lines or switching to less on a non-X terminal, but the info is not far
> away).
>
> Still I think usability of the command line client could be improved by having a switch -w
> aka --wordy (as --verbose is already taken) that either
>
> a) substitutes the symbols with short words, i.e. instead of 'M' you have 'Modified',
> instead of '*' you have 'out-of-date', 'outdated' or 'obsolete'. Naturally this would make
> the line substantially longer, the flags would need around 50 chars to still be aligned.
> Alternatively the words could be packed and cutoff with a plus sign at 20-30 chars as more
> than three flags should be quite seldom.
>
> b) or adds an index after the status list, where all those (and only those) symbols that
> occured in the status list have a short explanation line similar to what is printed for
> that symbol in svn help status. The nice thing is, you always get only the information you
>  need, in a compact way.
>
> I think I would prefer solution b, since the short words may in some cases be still too
> short to give an adequate hint to what it means.
>
> For best results it should be possible to turn this on by default in the users config file.
>
> I did a quick check on 4 people here in the office. One never used the command line
> client, one didn't think he needed the feature and two thought that would be helpful to them.
>
> Any comments?
>
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