Johan Corveleyn wrote: > Julian Foad wrote: > ... >> Do we really want a new subcommand "svn youngest" for this? >> >> We already have: >> >> svnversion >> # youngest rev in a WC >> >> svn info $URL | grep 'Revision:' >> # head revision of repo in which $URL exists > > Not exactly. It would give you "Revision: 12345", not "12345".
Yes. The point is, the information is already there, and is accessed through the 'svn info' command. > I think it would be nice if 'svn info' supported a "key" > option, so: > > svn info --key Revision $URL > 12345 > > (or --name, or --whatever). > > Then we'd also have: > > svn info --key "Working Copy Root Path" some/path > C:\MyWorkingCopy Yes: without selecting a specific colour to paint this bike shed, I like this kind of interface. The "svn info" UI is already designed to display this kind of information, so let's just make it display it in a more convenient form rather than adding new subcommand for "youngest" and then deciding whether to implement a new subcommand again for each additional bit of info that we might like to access such as repo-UUID, file size, last committed rev, and so on. Also: if the primary use case for adding 'svn youngest' was for use in 'svnmucc' work flows, then maybe 'svnmucc' should be providing a 'youngest' command or some other kind of solution to that particular problem-space. - Julian
