On Wed 06 Sep 2006 at 02:03PM, Danek Duvall wrote:
> 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.

Perfect.

> >         - 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?

I think you are right.  Ok, this discussion suggests some basic code
structuring I can do as long as I'm in there.  Perfect.

        -dp

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Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blogs.sun.com/dp
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