Re: Getting delta content length

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're working on a project to replay revisions using the replay API
> and dump a deltified dumpfile to stdout on-the-fly without using a
> filesystem backing. Althought the md5sum seems to be available through
> svn_txdelta_apply, the length of the delta doesn't seem to be. Without
> this length, we cannot generate a valid dumpfile (since the parser
> needs the content length information) - the current workaround is to
> load the whole stream into memory and measure its length, but this is
> highly inefficient. Is there any other way?

IIRC, Subversion is calculating that delta on the fly, so it can't exactly
hand you up-front the length thereof. Could you use a temporary file on
disk (and a stat() call for the filesize) instead of in-memory storage as
your go-between?

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