On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 04:48:50PM +0100, Philip Martin wrote: > Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> writes: > > > svn patch does not accept this familiar syntax for the same reason: > > svn patch < patchfile > > > > The only command we have that works like this is svnadmin, > > which never prompts interactively. > > Standard patch allows me to use '<' and still prompts interactively: > > $ patch -p0 < x.patch > patching file wc/A/f > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n]
Of course. But it can use isatty(). And we cannot because APR doesn't provide it and we don't have a custom implementation of it either.