Temp file to avoid the "svn: Write error: Broken pipe" error messages

Try using a temp file to store log output

http://code.quipudigital.net/get-svn-head-revision-number.php
http://code.quipudigital.net/get-svn-head-revision-number.php

Vincent Lefevre-11 wrote:
>
> Since http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3014
> ("svn log | head" should not print "Write error: Broken pipe")
> isn't fixed yet, I've eventually written a simple wrapper. See
> attachment. It's not perfect, but better than nothing.
>
> Note: for those who use localized messages, the script needs to
> be modified accordingly.
>
> --
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>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # svn wrapper to avoid "svn: Write error: Broken pipe" error messages
> # when piping the svn output to some command.
> #
> # Caveat: if svn fails, its exit status is lost. However this script
> # will generally be used in an interactive way before a pipe (where
> # the user doesn't have a direct access to the exit status), and the
> # user can still look at the possible other error messages.
> #
> # Script written by Vincent Lefevre <vincent_at_vinc17.net> in July 2010,
> # released in the public domain.
>
> filter()
> {
> unset brpipe
> while read err
> do
> case "$err" in
> *Write\ error:\ Broken\ pipe) brpipe=1 ;;
> *) printf "%s\n" "$err" ;;
> esac
> done
> test -z "$brpipe" || kill -PIPE $$
> }
>
> { svn "$@" 2>&1 >&3 3>&- | filter >&2 3>&-; } 3>&1
>
> # $Id: svnwrapper 38281 2010-07-30 13:34:46Z vinc17/ypig $
>
>

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