On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 11:37 +0200, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Arwin Arni <ar...@collab.net> wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 June 2011 02:51 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > >> > >> Please convince me why having svn_client_bisect() is needed. > >> > >> There are already THREE scripts out there that implement cmdline 'svn > >> bisect': > >> one on CPAN, one in Peter's Debian package, one that Julian just posted. > >> (And we got one sent to the issue tracker a while ago, but the CPAN one > >> was more featureful) > > > > Wouldn't having it as a part of our API improve the feature set of all the > > clients using it? > > +1 > > It would be nice to have a standard/good implementation of this in svn > core. So it's available to people that don't even have perl (or python > or whatever scripting language) installed (90% of my dev colleagues > around here :-)). > > It seems like a useful feature.
Please be careful to distinguish between having an "svn bisect" command in the "svn" client versus having an svn_client_bisect() API in libsvn_client. This thread is muddling those two things. - Julian
