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Re: [PATCH]: issue #2264 - multiple locks over ra_svn - v4

From: VK Sameer <sameer_at_collab.net>
Date: 2005-07-06 08:39:40 CEST

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 21:07 +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
> kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> > VK Sameer <sameer@collab.net> writes:
> >>Index: subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/client.c
> >>===================================================================
> >>--- subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/client.c (revision 15189)
> >>+++ subversion/libsvn_ra_svn/client.c (working copy)
> [...]
> >>+ err = handle_auth_request(sess, pool);
> >>+
> >>+ /* Pre-1.3 servers don't support 'lock-many'. If that fails, fall back
> >>+ * to 'lock'. */
> >>+ if (err && err->apr_err == SVN_ERR_RA_SVN_UNKNOWN_CMD &&
> >>+ strcmp (err->message, "Unknown command 'lock-many'") == 0)
> >>+ return ra_svn_lock_compat(session, path_revs, comment, force, lock_func,
> >>+ lock_baton, pool);
>
> (I'm chipping in with no knowledge again.) Is it really necessary and
> appropriate to do a string comparison of the error message text? It appears to
> me that just testing the error code would be sufficient.

I don't have a strong opinion on this. It is mainly (ultra-?) defensive
programming for a garbled marshalling/unmarshalling situation. If that
seems far-fetched, I'll take it out.

Thanks
Sameer

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