Re: svn commit: r34914 - branches/http-protocol-v2/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf

Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 13:36, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> >...
> > No implementation of an RA API should be allowed to use a stale value for
> > HEAD. Subversion != svn, and GUI clients that keep the libraries loaded
>
> Eh? Where is that guarantee in the API documentation? I don't recall
> us ever saying that would be the case.

/**
 * Get the latest revision number from the repository of @a session.
 *
 * Use @a pool for memory allocation.
 *
 * @since New in 1.2.
 */
svn_error_t *
svn_ra_get_latest_revnum(svn_ra_session_t *session,
                         svn_revnum_t *latest_revnum,
                         apr_pool_t *pool);

In what universe does "latest" mean "the value I cached when you
created this ra object an hour ago"?

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Eric Gillespie <*> epg_at_pretzelnet.org
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