You are viewing a plain text version of this content. The canonical link for it is here.
Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Daniel Rall <dl...@collab.net> on 2006/12/04 18:01:11 UTC

Re: [Issue 2672] New - --show-log flag for "svn update"

I'm not in favor of this change.  I don't believe that 'update' is the
appropriate place to be retrieving change log information.  Thoughts?

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006, salty_horse@tigris.org wrote:

> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2672
>                  Issue #|2672
>                  Summary|--show-log flag for "svn update"
>                Component|subversion
>                  Version|---
>                 Platform|All
>                      URL|
>               OS/Version|All
>                   Status|NEW
>        Status whiteboard|
>                 Keywords|
>               Resolution|
>               Issue type|ENHANCEMENT
>                 Priority|P5
>             Subcomponent|cmdline client
>              Assigned to|issues@subversion
>              Reported by|salty_horse
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ------- Additional comments from salty_horse@tigris.org Sun Dec  3 12:01:49 -0800 2006 -------
> "svn up --show-log" will print the usual file modification output, and
> afterwards will print an "svn log"-style output of all the revisions between the
> current and the new one.
> 
> This is an absolute nice-to-have. I can already get that information in a
> variety of ways, but the best one would be built into the client. Some of them:
> 
> * running "svn info" to see the current revision, updating, and then running
> "svn log" against the old revision. I consider too much work - a wrapper script
> would fix that, but maybe other people would be interested in the feature.
> 
> * following the commit emails. But these are  useful for developers who like to
> review the code. As an end-user who uses a bleeding-edge application and simply
> likes to know "what's new since the last time I compiled", commit emails aren't
> the best solution.

Re: [Issue 2672] New - --show-log flag for "svn update"

Posted by Daniel Rall <dl...@collab.net>.
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006, David James wrote:

> On 12/4/06, C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net> wrote:
> >-1 from me.  The functionality can be gained using a wrapper script
> >(which we could certainly keep in our own contrib/ area), and the
> >maintenance cost of a first-class feature just wouldn't see payoff.
> >
> >Resolve/WONTFIX?
> 
> Yes please.
> 
> If you want to see the latest logs before you update, you can get it
> by typing "svn log -rBASE:HEAD | less" before you update.

Done.

Re: [Issue 2672] New - --show-log flag for "svn update"

Posted by David James <ja...@cs.toronto.edu>.
On 12/4/06, C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net> wrote:
> -1 from me.  The functionality can be gained using a wrapper script
> (which we could certainly keep in our own contrib/ area), and the
> maintenance cost of a first-class feature just wouldn't see payoff.
>
> Resolve/WONTFIX?

Yes please.

If you want to see the latest logs before you update, you can get it
by typing "svn log -rBASE:HEAD | less" before you update.

Cheers,

David

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org

Re: [Issue 2672] New - --show-log flag for "svn update"

Posted by "C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net>.
-1 from me.  The functionality can be gained using a wrapper script
(which we could certainly keep in our own contrib/ area), and the
maintenance cost of a first-class feature just wouldn't see payoff.

Resolve/WONTFIX?

Daniel Rall wrote:
> I'm not in favor of this change.  I don't believe that 'update' is the
> appropriate place to be retrieving change log information.  Thoughts?
> 
> On Sun, 03 Dec 2006, salty_horse@tigris.org wrote:
> 
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2672
>>                  Issue #|2672
>>                  Summary|--show-log flag for "svn update"
>>                Component|subversion
>>                  Version|---
>>                 Platform|All
>>                      URL|
>>               OS/Version|All
>>                   Status|NEW
>>        Status whiteboard|
>>                 Keywords|
>>               Resolution|
>>               Issue type|ENHANCEMENT
>>                 Priority|P5
>>             Subcomponent|cmdline client
>>              Assigned to|issues@subversion
>>              Reported by|salty_horse
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------- Additional comments from salty_horse@tigris.org Sun Dec  3 12:01:49 -0800 2006 -------
>> "svn up --show-log" will print the usual file modification output, and
>> afterwards will print an "svn log"-style output of all the revisions between the
>> current and the new one.
>>
>> This is an absolute nice-to-have. I can already get that information in a
>> variety of ways, but the best one would be built into the client. Some of them:
>>
>> * running "svn info" to see the current revision, updating, and then running
>> "svn log" against the old revision. I consider too much work - a wrapper script
>> would fix that, but maybe other people would be interested in the feature.
>>
>> * following the commit emails. But these are  useful for developers who like to
>> review the code. As an end-user who uses a bleeding-edge application and simply
>> likes to know "what's new since the last time I compiled", commit emails aren't
>> the best solution.


-- 
C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net>
CollabNet   <>   www.collab.net   <>   Distributed Development On Demand