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Re: logging: mod_dav_svn proof of concept

From: Walter Nicholls <walter.nicholls_at_cornerstone.co.nz>
Date: 2005-08-09 04:20:53 CEST

>> setting SVN-REVISION to the repository version (post-commits) would
>> also be really handy.
>
> Why? So that the svn logfile can write "username commit REVNUM"
> instead of "username commit"?

Actually it wasn't the commits I was thinking about. It was to save
having to use timestamps to correlate the svn log info with the Apache
log. (The comment about post-commits was a red herring, sorry I
shouldn't have mentioned it). More specifically, the revision of the
operation may not be the same as HEAD at the time, eg "svn co -rXXX", so
trying to match on timestamp wouldn't work. (Sorry, I didn't make it
obvious, in fact probably made it very unobvious, that I was imagining this)

To attempt to come up with an example use case - which will I think turn
out to have fishhooks in it, say I commit rev 1300 then follow it up
with hasty patch in rev 1301, then I want to find out if anyone has read
that bad revision. It would be nice to know if anyone has read that bad
revision : something like grep "rev 1300" <apache/logs/svn

However in thinking that one through, it occurs to me that not every
operation to log is going to work off a single revision number.
Possibly a commit, in fact, is one of the few that always would
(ironically it would also always be HEAD).

One unsubtle example - SVN CAT file1.c@1234 file2.c@5678 (I think this
works). Then there's diff, merge, copy etc.

So maybe this needs to come down to file-level logging - ie user X
fetched file Y at revision Z. Much bigger problem than your patch was
addressing.

- Walter

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