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Re: Output of svn co - what does E mean?

From: Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:36:54 -0800

Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:18, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> svn help update has it.
>>>
>>> For each updated item a line will start with a character reporting the
>>> action taken. These characters have the following meaning:
>>>
>>> A Added
>>> D Deleted
>>> U Updated
>>> C Conflict
>>> G Merged
>>> E Existed
>>>
>>> A character in the first column signifies an update to the actual file,
>>> while updates to the file's properties are shown in the second column.
>>> A 'B' in the third column signifies that the lock for the file has
>>> been broken or stolen.
>> Can a subset of this be added to the help for svn co, since those same
>> statuses can be reported during that operation? If I can find time
>> some evening I may check out a copy of the source & try to write a
>> patch myself.
>
> Before working on the patch, I'd ask on dev@. I am assuming there are
> people that have objections for some reason as I cannot see why else
> the information is not already repeated.

Maintaining duplicates is generally frowned upon. There is a note in 'svn help
co' (at least my latest trunk version), which goes something like this:

  See also 'svn help update' for a list of possible characters
  reporting the action taken.

I think that's probably sufficient.

-Hyrum

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