Re: svn_wc_status() unversioned semantics for non-wc files

Jay Freeman (saurik) wrote:

>Seeing as all files, even versioned files, are showing up as
>"unversioned" to me due to weird Win32 issues, I'm not going to be able
>to do a patch for this currently :). (I believe it is the / vs. \
>issue, Subversion insists on letting /'s get down through the APR layer,
>but even changing all of the /'s results in a filename that doesn't
>exist, so maybe not.) I need to look more into that first.
>
Strange. I'm not seeing this problem. Certainly APR is supposed to
handle /->\ conversion for us. I don't think that's really what's happening.

BTW, when was the last time you updated svn? I did some hacks around
rev. 1235 to make the trunk work on Win32.

>Sincerely,
>Jay Freeman (saurik)
>saurik@saurik.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Karl Fogel [mailto:kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net]
>Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 2:13 PM
>To: Jay Freeman (saurik)
>Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
>Subject: Re: svn_wc_status() unversioned semantics for non-wc files
>
>"Jay Freeman \(saurik\)" <saurik@saurik.com> writes:
>
>>I'd say we are saying promises that aren't useful :). The same thing
>>
>is
>
>>returned for new files that have never been seen before in working
>>copies as is for paths that aren't even in working copies. There
>>doesn't seem to be an obvious way to differentiate /etc/passwd from
>>/home/saurik/code/subversion/fileIDidntAddYet.
>>
>
>Ah. You want a code for "unversioned, but inside a versioned dir" or
>something like that, is that right?
>
>That seems reasonable, yeah. I mean, technically the caller could do
>a separate status check on the parent of the original path, but since
>the first status check has all the information needed to answer the
>question completely, it might as well do so.
>
>Got time to make a patch?
>
>-K
>
>>Sincerely,
>>Jay Freeman (saurik)
>>saurik@saurik.com
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Karl Fogel [mailto:kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net]
>>Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 12:03 PM
>>To: Jay Freeman (saurik)
>>Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
>>Subject: Re: svn_wc_status() unversioned semantics for non-wc files
>>
>>"Jay Freeman \(saurik\)" <saurik@saurik.com> writes:
>>
>>>Is there a way to figure out if a file just has absolutely nothing
>>>
>to
>
>>do
>>
>>>with a working copy? I could have sworn those files used to return
>>>
>>NULL
>>
>>>(with no error condition) from svn_wc_status(), but now they are
>>>spitting out a status object where everything is set to unversioned.
>>>
>>Doc string for svn_wc_status() says this:
>>
>> svn_wc_status_none : PATH is not versioned, and is either not
>> present on disk, or is ignored by the
>> svn:ignore property setting for PATH's
>> parent directory.
>>
>> svn_wc_status_absent : PATH is versioned, but is missing from
>> the working copy.
>>
>> svn_wc_status_unversioned : PATH is not versioned, but is
>> present on disk and not being
>> ignored (see above).
>>
>>Are we seeing behavior that breaks these promises, or are we seeing
>>callers that aren't checking for these values correctly?
>>
>>-K
>>
>>
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