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

[Giovanni Bajo]

Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:

>> 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.


svnmerge does not forward svn output. How do they know it's waiting for input?

Giovanni Bajo