On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 17:27 +0400, Ivan Zhakov wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 17:20, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > >> In principle, we should keep the current output by default (for backwards > >> compat), and add a new switch that enables human-readable output. > >> However, I think that in this case breaking compatibility in favour > >> of user-friendliness is highly justified. > >> > >> So I think the default output should be replaced completely with something > >> better, in addition to an --xml switch that produces XML output for > >> consumption by scripts. We could have the --show-revs switch enable the > >> old-style output (one revision per line) to provide those who have already > >> written scripts which parse this output with a migration path. > > > > Yes, please keep the old output (one rev per line) available somehow. > > I have developed quite a lot of scripts in our company that use [...] > > If the old style is no longer the default, I can live with that [...] > > > In that case -h (--human-readable) option for svn mergeinfo command > makes sense for me.
Of course we can keep the old output available. Enabling it when the '--show-revs' option is given sounds like a good solution, but we can choose a strictly compatible solution or less strict or whatever, no problem. - Julian
