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Re: cvs log equivalent

From: Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:41:39 -0400

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Paul Graham <pgraham_at_oasys-ds.com> wrote:
> The "Lines" field of svn log is puzzling.  It says how many lines of comment, etc., follow the header line.
>  It is therefore about as informative as "this page intentionally left blank".  Yet in its location in the log
> message it resembles the cvs "lines-changed" field enough to be misleading.

FWIW, I believe it exists for scripts that might be parsing the
output. It lets them know how many lines are in the comment. I agree
on the confusion, especially for CVS users. 

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Received on 2011-03-25 20:42:11 CET

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