On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:58 PM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 03:25:55PM +1300, Talden wrote: >> Is there a short-hand for listing eligible revisions in a mergeinfo query? >> >> To avoid expensive (sometimes several minutes on <1.7) empty merge >> calls, it is handy to find out whether merge would actually do >> anything - the current command-line is pretty verbose for the task >> though (needless to say I've wrapped it up in a script). >> >> svn mergeinfo --show-revs eligible ^^/... >> >> Would a short-hand be out of the question? >> >> svn mergeinfo --eligible ^^/... >> >> Or maybe even an alias command ala bazaar. >> >> svn alias "eligible=mergeinfo --show-revs eligible" >> svn eligible ^^/... >> >> (I'd probably call it 'missing' myself since it lists missing >> revisions and I'm used to that in another tool - guess which one) > > I hear ya. > I think that 'svn mergeinfo' is very limited in its current implementation. > There is a lot of potential to enhance its reporting capabilities. > The current output is great for consumption by scripts, but not by humans. > The current invocation syntax is not very nice.
Agreed on both counts and I've been following the output conversation on dev. > However, we won't change output or command invocation in patch releases. > So you'll have to rely on some wrapper script solution until a new > release appears which ships 'svn mergeinfo' enhancements. > > There are some new ideas being worked on, see > http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-09/0562.shtml > If you have any further input on the topic, please share it on the dev list. Will do, though at this point I think my suggestions would just be 'me toos' for ideas put forward by others. Good ideas too. -- Talden