On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Paul Graham <pgra...@oasys-ds.com> wrote: > The "Lines" field of svn log is puzzling. It says how many lines of comment, > etc., follow the header line. > It is therefore about as informative as "this page intentionally left > blank". Yet in its location in the log > message it resembles the cvs "lines-changed" field enough to be misleading.
FWIW, I believe it exists for scripts that might be parsing the output. It lets them know how many lines are in the comment. I agree on the confusion, especially for CVS users. -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
