On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Branko Čibej <br...@xbc.nu> wrote: > On 30.09.2011 16:03, Julian Foad wrote: >> On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 17:27 +0400, Ivan Zhakov wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 17:20, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, please keep the old output (one rev per line) available somehow. >>>> I have developed quite a lot of scripts in our company that use [...] >>>> If the old style is no longer the default, I can live with that [...] >>>> >>> In that case -h (--human-readable) option for svn mergeinfo command >>> makes sense for me. >> Of course we can keep the old output available. Enabling it when the >> '--show-revs' option is given sounds like a good solution, but we can >> choose a strictly compatible solution or less strict or whatever, no >> problem. >> > > I guess ... in this case it just might be better to make the new format > the default. Assuming the release notes state loudly that scripts that > use mergeinfo must be updated. > > Whatever our policy about backwards compatibility, the primary goal > should be to make the script useful for humans. Making output > parsable/useful for scripts is secondary.
Agreed. Fortunately, all of the script-usage I have is based on "--show-revs eligible" :-), so if we keep the old output with this option, that would be great. I have no objections against changing the default output to something more human-readable. -- Johan
