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Re: Walking Merge History

From: Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu>
Date: 2007-09-12 20:35:25 CEST

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Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> A couple of weeks ago, after reading Karl's excellent description[1] of
> our delta editor, the idea occurred to me that we could use a similar
> construct to walk through an object's ancestry, finding merging and
> merged revisions, and allowing a consumer (such as the get_file_revs()
> interface) to construct appropriate delta's and the like. Done right,
> this could open up a lot of possibilities, such as merge history graphs.
> Done wrong, we could be in a much worse situation than we are now.
>
> Having looked at the problem for a while, and realizing that I'm just
> not smart enough to go it alone, I'd like to get some opinions on the
> best way to design the interface. So far, I've got something like:
>
> typedef struct svn_repos__ancestry_callbacks_t
> {
> /* An ancestor was found in PATH at REV. */
> svn_error_t *(*found_ancestor)(void *walk_baton,
> const char *path,
> svn_revnum_t rev,
> svn_boolean_t *halt,
> apr_pool_t *pool);
>
> } svn_repos__ancestry_callbacks_t;
>
> /* Walk the ancestry of PATH, from END to START, calling CALLBACKS as
> needed. */
> svn_error_t *
> svn_repos__walk_ancestry(const char *end_path,
> svn_fs_t *fs,
> svn_revnum_t start,
> svn_revnum_t end,
> svn_boolean_t include_merges,
> svn_boolean_t stop_on_copy,
> const svn_repos__ancestry_callbacks_t
> *callbacks,
> void *callbacks_baton,
> svn_repos_authz_func_t authz_read_func,
> void *authz_read_baton,
> apr_pool_t *pool);
>
> This is great at traversing one line of history, but what about multiple
> lines? Unlike the delta editor where a node is either a directory or a
> file, in the case of ancestry, a revision can be both a merging
> revision, as well as a revision that somebody made edits to. Should
> there be multiple callbacks? Which order should they come in? Is there
> a way to send multiple lines of history streamily?
>
> Some other questions:
> * Should we have separate callbacks for flagging merging and "end of
> branch" revisions, or just add flags on the existing callback?
>
> * Should we implement this walker in as public API, so that the client
> libraries can use it directly? What would be the best way to do so?
> (If we did do that, we'd need to transmit deltas, similar to
> get_file_revs().)
>
> In some ways, I feel that my current implementation of 'blame -g' is
> pretty hacky, and doesn't have a very sound theoretical backing. I know
> that there are some bugs in there, and actually implementing an ancestry
> walker would go a long way toward improving correctness.
>
> Thoughts?

Well, having heard nothing but a deafening silence, I'm going to create
a branch and commit some of the work I've already done to it. I don't
have much, but it may give people a little bit better of an idea of what
I'm proposing.

> -Hyrum
>
> [1] http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/beautiful-code/bc-chapter-02.html
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