Re: Semantics of Move

On 08/15/2013 08:01 AM, Julian Foad wrote:
> I propose the following logical semantics of the versioned move
> operation that is the basis of move tracking, independent of any
> implementation.
>
> A versioned move of the node with node id “N”, with respect to two
> revisions rX and rY (X < Y), shall mean:
>
> * Same node id. A node with node id N exists in rX and in rY. It
> is “the same node”. It therefore has the same node kind. It may have
> content modifications.

If the contents change then it should get a new node-id.

I have a vested stake in this since our asset management system backed
by svn caches in memcached the result of many svn_fs_*() functions by
node-id. Our system does three cache lookups:

time -> revision
(revision, path) -> node_id
(node_id, function_name) -> result

Doing this allows me to take a lot of load off the svn backend RPC server.

Blair
Received on 2013-08-16 04:49:44 CEST