Re: "svn list -v" column alignment issue

Vincent Lefevre wrote on Mon, 13 Jan 2020 10:26 +00:00:
> On 2020-01-10 16:58:26 +0100, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
> > Since both 'svn ls -v' and 'svn blame' can be called on a repository
> > URL, I don't really see the point in caching the max(length(author))
> > of the working copy.
> >
> > The output from a URL would still be mis-aligned. It would make the
> > presentation inconsistent between calling it on a working copy and on
> > a URL.
>
> Good point. I was about to say that in most cases, these commands are
> run from a working copy. But I now think that caching should be done
> under the user's home (just like with most applications). Under Unix,
> this would be under "$XDG_CACHE_HOME/subversion".

When would data be evicted from the cache?

> The data should be associated with the URL of the repository.

I'd say UUID, but we don't have to decide this now.
Received on 2020-01-13 17:51:59 CET