Am Montag, 1. Februar 2016, 10:51:39 schrieb Stefan Sperling: > So we could consider extending svn patch to run without a path argument > and read the patch from stdin. > > [...] this feature falls squarly into the domain of the command line client > and not the API. > > Also, I think we should preserve the following behaviour > $ svn patch > svn: E205001: Try 'svn help patch' for more information > svn: E205001: Not enough arguments provided > Invoking 'svn patch' with a path to a patch file must remain a valid > use case. We cannot break backwards compatibilty here.
> > gzip -dc patch-0042.gz | svn patch -P patch-0042 - That's why my suggested invocation had a hyphen '-' at the end, playing the role of a place-holder for 'stdin'. This preserves both current situations, i.e., 'svn patch' being called without an argument (--> error) and with a filename (--> normal processing). Also, 'svn patch -' should _require_ to be supplied with the '-P' option and a filename for storage. Thanks for considering this.
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