Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> From subversion/svn/info-cmd.c:
>    272          if (TRUE)
>    274              /* svn-viewspec.py format */
>    281          else
>    283              /* svn command-line format */
> 
> Why is there an «if (TRUE)» there?  Should that condition be exposed a
> command-line option, or removed?

For experimenting with viewspec output, I feel both formats are about equally 
useful at this stage, neither is ideal, and neither is likely what an eventual 
stable format should be. That's based on knowing that cmdline is practical for 
testing and assuming that there are some users using viewspec.py (e.g. Paul 
Hammant recently contributed a regression test suite for it).

I was thinking to add a cmdline option to select, for the time being. IIRC 
Brane said "pick one and be done with it". That's as far as we got. I still 
favour adding a user-selectable option, e.g. 
"--x-viewspec={cmdline|svn-viewspec.py}" (ugly, I know).

-- 
- Julian

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