On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:49 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
>> On 05/08/2012 04:39 PM, Mark Phippard wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Ivan Zhakov <ivan_at_visualsvn.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:09 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
>>>>> On 05/08/2012 03:35 PM, Greg Stein wrote:
>>>>>> One question: the ordering of PROPFIND and GET. Do you know if that is
>>>>>> a requirement, or simply that you were preserving prior behavior?
>>>>>
>>>>> Upon reflection, it's probably not a hard requirement. In general, I
>>>>> suppose it's easier (and more efficient) to cache properties and stream
>>>>> contents while we drive an editor than the reverse, so that's probably why
>>>>> that ordering was chosen prior.
>>>>>
>>>> Another option is to include properties in REPORT even in skelta-mode
>>>> if they are small. With defining small something like 0.5-1k.
>>>
>>> Agreed. I had forgotten that we would still need these roundtrips to
>>> get the properties. Maybe the REPORT request could at least indicate
>>> which items have properties. It would be better for performance if
>>> things like svn:eol-style and svn:mimetype were included in the
>>> request so we then only had to go back to the server for custom props
>>> (and we knew which files have them).
>>
>> The REPORT request does include a <fetch-props/> type of indicator which
>> says "there's something worth fetching here".
>>
>> I'm quite in favor of including, say, the "svn:" class of properties in the
>> REPORT response proper.
>>
> We could include all properties if we know there are small. It seems
> to be possible implement this on server side, but I'm not sure that
> current client code is ready for mixing embedded and external
> properties in REPORT response.
>
Well, it seems things are more complicated: current mod_dav_svn
implementation never sends <fetch-props /> tag and ra_serf always asks
for properties, even if there is no properties.
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Ivan Zhakov
Received on 2012-05-08 23:48:19 CEST