bug#13513: 24.3.50; Going "--non-interactive" is the wrong thing for SVN on OSX

[Carsten Bormann]

On Jan 23, 2013, at 09:41, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:

> IIUC, future svn will/may default to non-interactive in the Emacs case:
> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2012-12/0432.shtml

That is of course the right solution (if and when it is done right).
All we are trying to do here is work around svn's bugs in a reasonably elegant 
way.

> So in summary as far as we knew till now, all platforms needed
> --non-interactive to avoid Emacs waiting forever for svn to respond,
> with no indication as to what was going on.

I don't know that at all.
What is the OSX case where you get an endless wait without --non-interactive?
(You may need an --accept for update, to make that do something meaningful.
But --non-interactive is too big a hammer.)

Grüße, Carsten