On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org> wrote: > > [Mark Phippard] >> Would this cause issues for apps that drive the command line >> programmatically without a console? For example, a Java web app that >> does some SVN commands from within the app server? > > I can't imagine we'd want to officially support that sort of usage. > We've broken "screen scraping" types of apps before, with things like > column alignments in 'svn status' output. And you already can't > screen-scrape password prompts, at least on Unix, where we end up > calling the OS function getpass() which uses the console. So it would > only be possible to drive prompts like whether to accept an unsigned > server certificate. > > I'd say, if you don't have an actual console at hand, you really really > should be using --non-interactive.
I think there are a ton of apps and script that do this today. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
