Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 03:31:11PM +0530, Noorul Islam K M wrote:
>
>> | Command | Return Code | Continue |
>> |------------+-------------+----------|
>> | add | 0 | Y |
>> | blame | 1 | N |
>> | cat | 1 | Y |
>> | changelist | 0 | N |
>> | commit | 1 | N |
>> | copy | 1 | N |
>> | delete | 1 | N |
>> | diff | 1 | N |
>> | info | 1 | Y |
>> | list | 1 | N |
>> | log | 1 | N |
>> | revert | 0 | Y |
>
> Nice overview, thanks for putting this together!
>
>> The commands add, cat, info and revert continues execution even if it
>> finds one of the targets non-existing. All of them returns 0 to the
>> shell except 'info' which returns 1. Also info prints
>>
>> svn: A problem occurred; see other errors for details
>>
>> at the end of the execution which tells the user that something went
>> wrong during execution. This is not the case with 'add', 'cat' and
>> 'revert'. I think these three commands also should return 1 and print
>> the message which 'info' does, so that users does not have to scroll
>> up to see the warnings to decide something went wrong.
>
> +1 on making more commands print a "problem occured" message at the end.
>
> I also think that all commands should exit 1 if one of the specified
> targets could not be found. This makes it much easier to detect such
> errors in shell scripts.
>
>> Among these revert prints 'Skipped' message and others print 'svn:
>> warning: ..' message.
>
> Hmm... somewhat inconsistent, but I don't think we need consistency
> here. Either way of putting it ("skipped" or "warning") is fine.
>
>> I think commit operation is an atomic one, therefore it does make
>> sense when it errors out when one of the target is invalid.
>>
>> I am not sure why all the other commands errors out when one of the
>> targets is non-existing.
>
> I think any command that tries to make a commit should error out.
> This includes copy and delete, because they can make commits without
> a working copy.
>
> Commands that operate on the working copy (including copy and delete!)
> should continue, print a "warning" or "skipped" message, and print
> the "problem occured" message at the end.
>
If everyone agrees to this then I will start sending patches for this.
Thanks and Regards
Noorul
