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Re: [PATCH] "svnadmin dump": An optional XML output format.

From: David Summers <david_at_summersoft.fay.ar.us>
Date: 2002-12-21 20:43:14 CET

On 21 Dec 2002, Greg Hudson wrote:

> Well, this doesn't look like a horrible amount of code, but I still
> wonder if it wouldn't be better implemented as a separate script or
> program to convert the Subversion dump format to XML and vice versa.
>
> Can you explain what motivates you to want an XML dump format?
>

If it needs to be a separate script or program, that's fine. It just
looked like it fit into the "svnadmin dump/load" structure very well.

1. It's neat, new, and I'm learning it and using it on projects at work.
   :-) (we're converting our simulators to use XML config files)
2. It is a "standardized" way of presenting data in a portable format.
3. It helps describe the data in a more readable format (although the
   original format is not bad, just takes some digging around to
   understand).
4. I think it should help to improve the importability/exportability of
   the repository data to other tools (more easily
   readable/understandable).
5. Someone mentioned RevML (which I'm looking for references for now)
   which should (theoretically and in the the future) increase interoperability
   with other SCM/SCCS systems.
6. It seemed the "Right Thing To Do (TM)" :-) coming from a Computer
   Science / Computer Engineering background.
7. It looked like a fairly easy way for me to jump into learning the
   Subversion source code while providing something useful. I've already
   learned a powerful lot just by running into problems and solving them
   (I spent all day re-writing 30-40 source code files to handle the
   change, come to find out that was a very dumb way of doing it and is
   what "batons" were designed for).

I'm sure it needs some work to make sure it is "doing the right thing"
from a system design and theoretical point of view, this was my first
attempt and I wanted to get some feedback on things to improve/change,
etc.

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