Re: Re-use connection for svn:externals

On Tue, 2010-02-09, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 08:19:07PM +0100, Bert Huijben wrote:
> > > Van: Ivan Zhakov
> > > The only problem I see is RA session root relative paths [1], since we
> > > end up with pool of connection for one repository but with different
> > > session root. We may workaround it using convention that svn_client_*
> > > RA sessions always rooted to repository root [2].
> > Opening at repository root reintroduces issue #3242 (Authorization fails at repository root)

Bert, please see the thread that Ivan linked: in particular this email
and its replies: <http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-10/0315.shtml>.
They describe a way to manage this so that it isn't a problem.

- Julian

> If we can't open the path we're interested in with a recycled RA session,
> I suppose we could try use a new RA session. Recycling the session is just
> an optimisation afterall. It does not need to break anything.
>
> Stefan
Received on 2010-02-10 00:06:27 CET