On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 01:50:06PM -0700, Dan Price wrote:

>         - Would it be possible to autodetect that one is using SVN?
>           One of the changes I am making to webrev is to try to
>           have it "just do the right thing" if you just invoke it
>           as 'webrev'-- my hope is that it could be a tool of interested
>           to broader users of SVN, Hg, etc. if it "just worked"

You can run "svn info" and check the exit code.  If you want something
lighter-weight (but likely a private interface), every directory in a
checked-out subversion tree has a .svn directory, and "svn info" appears to
look at "format" and "entries" in it.

>         - Would it make sense to have a 'mode' flag instead of say,
>           -S?  For example, we could -m tw, -m svn, -m hg as an
>           extensible way of supporting multiple SCM types.  (One of my
>           changes is to have webrev use getopts(1))

If you can autodetect, is there any reason to have this?

Danek
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