Branko Čibej wrote on Fri, 23 Nov 2018 10:15 +0100: > On 23.11.2018 09:10, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > I would like make a change, but it is a highly bikesheddy one so > > I'd rather ask the list first to give everyone a chance to suggest > > their favourite colours. > > > > The length of author names in 'svn ls -v' output is currently truncated > > at 8 columns. Things have been this way since the dawn of time: > > https://svn.apache.org/r842817 > > So it has, the idea was to make the output easily parseable with 'cut' > etc. That was long before --xml.
We already broke compatibility with cut(1) when we changed the first column's width from %6ld to %7ld. Before that, the output was actually aligned with '/bin/ls -l' on my system.
