Re: 'svn incoming'

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:55 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 05:33:15PM +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Mercurial has a very convenient command "hg incoming" which is
>>>> basically "what's new" for incoming changes. Will it be nice to add
>>>> the same capability to Subversion? `svn log -r BASE:HEAD' works ok,
>>>> but not everybody proficient enough to know about it.
>>>>
>>>> Please, CC.
>>>> --
>>>> anatoly t.
>>>
>>> Maybe you want "svn status -u" ?
>>>
>>> Or if you want to see the changes in detail, try:
>>>  svn diff --old=. --new=^/trunk
>>> This command assumes you're in a working copy of "/trunk".
>>> Adjust as necessary if your working copy came from a different path
>>> in the repository. On Unix-like systems this alternative will work
>>> in the root of any working copy: svn diff --old=. --new="`pwd`@HEAD"
>>
>> The required functionality (without diffs) in svn is implemented as:
>>   svn log -r BASE:HEAD
>>
>> What I want is a usability fix - command that corresponds to the
>> actual action user has in head:
>> 1. "check if there are any incoming revisions"
>> 2. "inspect incoming revisions"
>>
>> This is quite a popular request among Git users too:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1331385/how-can-i-see-incoming-commits-in-git
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/231211/using-git-how-do-i-find-modified-files-between-local-and-remote
>>
>> Bazaar:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3739002/how-check-incoming-changes-with-bazaar
>>
>>
>> Here is the example output (without diffs):
>> [rietveld]$ hg inc
>> comparing with https://techtonik@code.google.com/p/rietveld/
>> searching for changes
>> changeset:   844:e93557b66343
>> branch:      chromium
>> parent:      832:fae51921ad9d
>> user:        Roger Tawa <rogerta_at_chromium.org>
>> date:        Thu Apr 26 15:37:05 2012 -0400
>> summary:     Update the get_pending_try_patchsets endpoint to support a cursor
>>
>> changeset:   845:140baeb01745
>> parent:      843:a7a7f3bb8799
>> user:        Andi Albrecht <albrecht.andi_at_gmail.com>
>> date:        Sat Mar 03 22:06:04 2012 +0100
>> summary:     Add shortcut (arrow up/down) to focus on next/previous
>> line in side-by-side view.
>>
>> changeset:   846:2a83eaa50ed6
>> user:        Andi Albrecht <albrecht.andi_at_gmail.com>
>> date:        Sun Mar 18 08:11:23 2012 +0100
>> summary:     Correct keyboard shortcuts in popup help.
>>
>> changeset:   847:9ea01dc1c46e
>> user:        Andi Albrecht <albrecht.andi_at_gmail.com>
>> date:        Fri Apr 06 23:07:20 2012 +0200
>> summary:     Add message from upload.py when updating an issue (fixes issue351).
>> ...
>
> Subversion has no "changesets" as seen in a DVCS, so it won't be a
> direct 1:1 mapping of what the DVCSs implement.
>
> Are you just looking for an alias of svn log  -r BASE:HEAD? Why not
> just create your own alias in your shell of choice?

As I said `svn log -r BASE:HEAD' works ok, but not everybody
proficient enough to know about it. The question is - will it be more
useful for users VCS tools shared the same command line interface
where it is possible?

--
anatoly t.