[Svnmerge] Interactivity of 'svn' command-line client transitive tosvnmerge.py?

[Blair Zajac]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> Daniel Rall <dlr at collab.net> wrote:
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>>My analysis of the launchsvn() commands in the svnmerge.py source code
>>shows at least the following commands which could result in
>>interactivity by the 'svn' command-line binary, by way of triggering
>>network access:
>>[...]
> 
> 
> Many thanks for this analysis, Daniel.
> 
> 
>>Perhaps launchsvn() should be taught about --non-interactive?
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> 
> That would be one quick solution. Surely, it's better than the current
> situation.
> 
> OTOH, I wonder what's the best long-time solution. I think the best scenario
> is "exporting" the --non-interactive switch: forward it to "svn" when
> passed, but forward back interactive prompts from svn to the user when they
> pop-up. I'm not sure how much work this would be, though. Maybe we could
> have some regexp to identify the prompts, and some heuristic to decide how
> many previous lines of "context" to display. Then we should enter a kind of
> echo mode. Does this make sense at all?

That sounds like a lot of work.  People using svnmerge.py would hopefully be 
familiar with the command line client, and I would rather just let it take tty 
input.

Blair