Nathan Hartman wrote: > 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
