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Date:      Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:13:10 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru>
Cc:        Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sys/conf/newvers.sh vs. subversion-1.7
Message-ID:  <4EA315C6.4040305@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4EA3145A.6020703@passap.ru>
References:  <20111020114844.GK59810@albert.catwhisker.org> <20111020122121.GL59810@albert.catwhisker.org> <201110211636.05917.jhb@freebsd.org> <20111021211221.GV59810@albert.catwhisker.org> <CAG=rPVfD8EZYpD_SQES2%2B9uUeqGOaAhW3asJbVeGKeV3er2ZKw@mail.gmail.com> <4EA21842.5000808@FreeBSD.org> <CAG=rPVeBQq5srTTjHDg-9Yc7R%2B5%2Buhm4BgzvhxEJ4KyN9ef%2B7w@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110220801140.38610@toaster.local> <4EA30772.8090709@FreeBSD.org> <4EA3145A.6020703@passap.ru>

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On 10/22/2011 12:07, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> 22.10.2011 22:12, Doug Barton пишет:
>> On 10/22/2011 08:29, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> $(svn info | awk '/^Revision:/ {print $2}')
>>
>> 2 subshells and a pipe for this, vs. only 1 subshell for just running
>> svnversion.
>>
>> Anyone else want to propose a more complex solution when a simple and
>> more effective one already exists? :)
> 
> I'm not an exert here, so I'm not sure which one and why did you call
> "simple and more effective":

Please read the rest of this thread, where the fact that svnversion does
more than what 'svn info' does, and that people find the more that it
does to be useful.

So "simpler" is "one command, not 2 or more," and "more effective" is
"provides more information, and people find that extra information
useful." :)


hth,

Doug

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