Re: Why do we check the base checksum so often?

Daniel Shahaf wrote:

> [...] I think striking the word(s) "third-party" from your third
> paragraph will not affect its correctness.
>
> Greg Stein wrote:
>> IOW, when we release an Ev2-based Subversion, and third-party clients
>> that were built against the 1.0 through 1.7 APIs... those clients will
>> have shims inserted, and lose the check. [...]

So... Greg's talking about if a <= 1.7 client is re-linked against the Ev2-capable libraries, the shims would be inserted and that check would be lost.  But what happens if, instead, we run that <= 1.7 client *with its old libraries* and connect to an Ev2-capable server?  Then the shims would not be used on the client side; instead the server would talk Ev1 protocol ... but then the Ev2 -> Ev1 shims would be used on the server side to drive the old Ev1 protocol ... and so the base checksum would still be set to null, thus bypassing apply_textdelta's check, would it not?

- Julian
Received on 2012-02-07 09:50:00 CET