Comments on: A touch of coolness

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:36:23 +0000

Alternatively, you could just use the subversion bindings for ruby to get this information via the API - rather than using an exec & parse output hack.

By: topfunky

topfunky — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:09:27 +0000

Now only if svn log was also formatted as YAML…

By: trans

trans — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:21:19 +0000

How fortuitous
I agree and I’ve been generally doing this myself for some time. Actaully I think it’s one of those things that just clicks after a while of using YAML and writing CLI tools. Recently however I started taking it a step further, expirementing with accepting YAML as command line argument:

foo –x [a,b] –y {a: 1, b: 2}

Would become:

x:
- a
- b
y:
a: 1
b :2

By: Luke Redpath

Luke Redpath — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:37:56 +0000

Its very cool, I discovered this a while back. Here’s a little snippet I used in a project to display the current svn revision on the page footer in development mode:

http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/2374

By: James Fairbairn

James Fairbairn — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:37:54 +0000

Of course SVN’s output, like that of CVS before it, was meant from the beginning to be very structured, and therefore machine readable. I doubt it was intended to be YAML any more than HTTP headers were. But it’s a neat hack anyway.