AW: [RFC] proposed changes to log UI

[Voelker, Bernhard]

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
> > Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> >> What about a -fmt "<format-specifiers>" option?
> > 
> > bzr log supports --log-format <format-specifier> as a parameter.
> > 
> > I don't really see how --fmt would be different.
> > 
> > Aaron
> 
> I think it was meant to take a template, like "version-info" has.

I don't know well for bzr - but I think the word "template" is it.

In ClearCase, *many* commands can be used with a -fmt option for better
parsing by
batch procedures; and it uses printf-style formats which stand for the
same thing in every
command, e.g. "%c" means the comment of a transaction (checkout,
checkin, making a
branch, placing a label on a version, etc.).

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cchelp/v7r0m0/index.jsp?topic=/
com.ibm.rational.clearcase.cc_ref.doc/topics/fmt_ccase.htm

The idea behind this is to have unique set of these special %... format
string
characters available to all commands.

Sorry for the noise - comparing open source bzr against commercial
ClearCase ...

Berny