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Re: Ev2 and text deltas

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 17:17:37 -0400

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 17:17, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 01:49:18PM -0500, Hyrum K Wright wrote:
>> Quick question: is there a method via Ev2 to set text deltas?  I see
>> svn_editor_set_text(), but that appears to just apply full texts to
>> the target (via the given stream), rather than text deltas.  This
>> seems odd.  Why wouldn't we use text deltas instead of a simple
>> stream?
>>
>> Also, after reading the docs in svn_editor.h, it feels like all text
>> contents are sent in 'postfix' mode.  In other words, in Ev1, we have
>> the following sequence of calls:
>>  open_file()
>>  close_file()
>>  ...
>>  apply_textdelta()
>>
>> Whereas in Ev2 we have:
>>  add_file()
>>  ...
>>  set_text()
>>
>> Just trying a bit harder to grok Ev2,
>
> Some past discussion of this starts here:
> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-09/0295.shtml

Hyrum -- was your question answered? In particular, my thoughts around
using set_text() rather than deltas is best explained by this message
in the thread Stefen referenced:
  http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-09/0307.shtml

Let me know if there is more that I can help with.

Cheers,
-g
Received on 2011-09-02 23:18:08 CEST

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