Re: Issue #2991 resolved, but questions remain.

On 11/6/07, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:

> 3) RA-dependent inconsistency in capability reporting.
>
> This is a minor nit, sort of related to (2). Both ra_local and
> ra_dav (neon and serf) pass the same set of capabilities to
> 'start-commit', namely "log-revprops,depth,mergeinfo" (the order
> might change, but the set is the same). However, ra_svn sends:
>
> "edit-pipeline,svndiff1,absent-entries,depth,mergeinfo,log-revprops"
>
> You can imagine why: it's largely an accident of implementation
> and the fact that ra_svn was already transmitting capabilities
> before the other RA layers got into the game.

Well, sort of. It's also the fact that some of these (edit-pipeline
especially, and svndiff1 to some degree) are really ra_svn-protocol
specific. They aren't properties of the *Subversion* client or server
(like the new caps are); they're properties of the *ra_svn protocol*
client or server. I don't think that start-commit should see them any
more than they should see User-Agent strings or whether mod_gzip was
used or something.

--dave

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David Glasser | glasser_at_davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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