[MERGE] Output refactoring and XML integration into bzrlib

[Aaron Bentley]

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Martin Albisetti wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2007 3:38 AM, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>> I would advise against using the TreeDelta output for any new work.  The
>> ChangeReporter interface has much higher fidelity.
> 
> I've been looking into using ChangeReporter (we used TreeDelta as it's
> what is currently implemented), but I get the impression it's only
> implemented for --short.
> Am I understanding it wrong?

I think there's a better way to look at this--  You should try to
provide a single, excellent, XML output for machine consumption.  It
doesn't have to slavishly imitate the human-oriented output, just
provide a superset of the information the human UI provides.  For
example, it could always include file-ids.

> Would you need us to implement long logs on the ChangeReporter class?

Long logs?  It's an inventory thing.  Anything to do with logs would be
most unwelcome.

Aaron
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