[Svnmerge] [PATCH] Prompt for source branch when multiplesourcesexist

[Madan U S]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:57:21 +0530, Daniel Rall <dlr at collab.net> wrote:
 
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Jim Lawton wrote:
 
> Giovanni,
>  
> I've attached the same patch regenerated against r19109 to make things > easier.
> Is it fit to be committed?
>  
> > I'm not a fan of this interactivity (why is it necessary?), but will
> > review this patch.  Some comments:
>  

Where is this discussion happening? This is the only mail in the whole thread I 
got. Am I missing something? Or were the previous mails not mailed to the list?
 
Anyways, I agree with Dan. Looking at the cryptic outputs of 'svnmerge integrated' 
and 'svnmerge avail', one would think, svnmerge's  output would be used by other 
programs.  Now, this interactivity is dead against that idea. And secondly, 
providing interactivity as an option doesnt make sense. Consider this...
 
1) A user runs 'svnmerge integrated' without the -S option (because he doesnt know 
there are multiple heads)
2) 'svnmerge integrated' responds saying there are multiple heads
 
Now, why should he use
'svnmerge integrated -i'
   instead of
'svnmerge integrated -S path'
 
????
 
Seems like an afterthought.
 
The good thing that comes out of this discussion is that we have started thinking 
about interaction. Thanks Jim.
I would like to add food for your thought...
1) How does svnmerge handle the interactiveness of the commandline commands (like 
svn) that are being invoked by svnmerge?
 
Just my two cents worth.
 
Regards,
Madan.
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