svn st without the X lines for externals?

[Nathan Hartman]

We make extensive use of externals, so "svn st" outputs many lines
beginning with X. Running "svn st --ignore-externals" gets rid of the
"Performing status on external item at" output, but not the "X" lines.
Is it possible to avoid those as well?

Client version 1.10.0.

Thanks,

[Julian Foad]

Post by Nathan Hartman
We make extensive use of externals, so "svn st" outputs many lines
beginning with X. Running "svn st --ignore-externals" gets rid of the
"Performing status on external item at" output, but not the "X" lines.
Is it possible to avoid those as well?

I would consider supporting a proposal for "svn status" to be improved/changed, if you'd like to make such a proposal.

Meanwhile, I have been using this output-colouring wrapper script for a while, which also hides the X lines:

https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/svn-color

Overall I really like it. It is not perfect: it inserts color formatting even when output is not to a tty, which means e.g. "svn diff > patchfile" produces a file that 'patch' can't read, and I also find it runs svn --non-interactive so if a repo access would need a password it just fails instead. In those cases, I re-try using (in Bash) "command svn ..." instead of "svn ...".

- Julian

[Nathan Hartman]

Post by Julian Foad

Post by Nathan Hartman
We make extensive use of externals, so "svn st" outputs many lines
beginning with X. Running "svn st --ignore-externals" gets rid of the
"Performing status on external item at" output, but not the "X" lines.
Is it possible to avoid those as well?

I would consider supporting a proposal for "svn status" to be
improved/changed, if you'd like to make such a proposal.

I am thinking about what the proposal should be. Perhaps to sort by type of
change? On *nix I have become accustomed to typing "svn st | sort -r" to
print modified "M", then deleted "D", then added "A" but this is far from
perfect for a variety of reasons. And it doesn't work on Windows unless one
installs a *nix version of sort that has the -r switch.

Meanwhile, I have been using this output-colouring wrapper script for a

Post by Julian Foad
https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/svn-color
Overall I really like it. It is not perfect: it inserts color formatting
even when output is not to a tty, which means e.g. "svn diff > patchfile"
produces a file that 'patch' can't read, and I also find it runs svn
--non-interactive so if a repo access would need a password it just fails
instead. In those cases, I re-try using (in Bash) "command svn ..." instead
of "svn ...".

Thank you for mentioning this. I will look into it and perhaps it can be
fixed.

[Daniel Shahaf]

Post by Nathan Hartman
Thank you for mentioning this. I will look into it and perhaps it can be
fixed.

Probably just need to make apply_color return its first argument
unmodified when "not sys.stdout.isatty()".

[Branko Čibej]

Post by Julian Foad

Post by Nathan Hartman
We make extensive use of externals, so "svn st" outputs many lines
beginning with X. Running "svn st --ignore-externals" gets rid of the
"Performing status on external item at" output, but not the "X" lines.
Is it possible to avoid those as well?

I would consider supporting a proposal for "svn status" to be improved/changed, if you'd like to make such a proposal.

Interestingly enough, 'svn status --quiet' already does this, it's just
not very explicitly mentioned in the help text.

-- Brane

[Nathan Hartman]

Post by Julian Foad

Post by Julian Foad

Post by Nathan Hartman
We make extensive use of externals, so "svn st" outputs many lines
beginning with X. Running "svn st --ignore-externals" gets rid of the
"Performing status on external item at" output, but not the "X" lines.
Is it possible to avoid those as well?

I would consider supporting a proposal for "svn status" to be

improved/changed, if you'd like to make such a proposal.
Interestingly enough, 'svn status --quiet' already does this, it's just
not very explicitly mentioned in the help text.

Thank you for mentioning this. Unfortunately that also hides any mention of
unversioned items, so I will probably forget to add files that should be
added.