Processing localized svn info

[Frederic Duarte <fr...@oneaccess-net.com>]

Hello all,

Context
I can read from http://subversion.tigris.org/ the following Subversion's 
Feature :
/- Parseable output
*All* output of the Subversion command-line client is carefully designed 
to be both human readable and automatically parseable; scriptability is 
a high priority.
/
That's one of the most important feature for us, as we want to 
automatize lot of things.
But it seems that this feature is not really true, or am I trying to get 
informations the wrong way ?

Here is my problem :
I need to process some informations displayed by "svn info".
1) the plain text displayed by svn info is not so easy to parse
2) the svn client is automatically localized -> the plain text cannot be 
parsed
3) the text displayed by svn info changes depending on the TARGET (ex: 
the repository root is not displayed when TARGET is a working copy)

Question
How could I easily get/parse these informations ?

Thank you for your suggestions.
-- 
Frédéric DUARTE
Software production process
OneAccess Networks R&D

Re: Processing localized svn info

[Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com>]

On 5/17/06, Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com> wrote:
>
> On May 17, 2006, at 11:00, Frederic Duarte wrote:
>
> > Here is my problem :
> > I need to process some informations displayed by "svn info".
> > 1) the plain text displayed by svn info is not so easy to parse
>
> Oh, it's not that bad: split on the first ": " and you've got your
> set of name/value pairs.
>
> If that's not enough, the --xml switch gives you XML output which you
> can parse or transform with XSLT.

Just a quick note on that.  --xml was only introduced as a switch for
svn info with the release of 1.3.

But now that I know that, this may be my excuse to upgrade to 1.3, at
least on my desktop where I run my log reports.

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Re: Processing localized svn info

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On May 17, 2006, at 11:00, Frederic Duarte wrote:

> Here is my problem :
> I need to process some informations displayed by "svn info".
> 1) the plain text displayed by svn info is not so easy to parse

Oh, it's not that bad: split on the first ": " and you've got your  
set of name/value pairs.

If that's not enough, the --xml switch gives you XML output which you  
can parse or transform with XSLT.


> 2) the svn client is automatically localized -> the plain text  
> cannot be parsed

The first line of your script can set the locale to anything you  
like, for example:

LANG=en_US


> 3) the text displayed by svn info changes depending on the TARGET  
> (ex: the repository root is not displayed when TARGET is a working  
> copy)

But the repository root is shown, even for working copies. Are you  
using the latest version of Subversion, 1.3.1?



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