On 23.11.2018 10:40, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > 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.
You're right. And of course, the fact that we've had --xml for a long time should simplify the decision. I have a couple of ideas ... will make up a patch over the week-end. -- Brane
