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Re: Need doc fix?

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_galois.collab.net>
Date: 2000-10-13 04:56:53 CEST

Jim Blandy <jimb@savonarola.red-bean.com> writes:
> You're probably less flaky than I am,

Doubtful.

> but I've had bad experiences
> with "Yes, I'll fix it soon."

Not doubtful. :-)

> Either I keep everything up to date
> always, or things just deteriorate over time. Just my two cents.

Yeah, I think I'll try to leave less unfinished business around the
code, and do things in complete chunks instead. Better for all of us.

-K

> Karl Fogel <kfogel@galois.collab.net> writes:
>
> > Yes, I agree -- this part of the code is still under development,
> > however, and though Ben and I were collaborating on it to some degree,
> > I had to go out of town for a few days. That's why it's languished in
> > this half-documented state.
> >
> > However, there should be some indication of the fact that it's
> > incomplete (even when time is tight, as you say).
> >
> > The TOK argument may go away tomorrow, though, so it'll get fixed
> > soonly.
> >
> > Jim Blandy <jimb@savonarola.red-bean.com> writes:
> > > It looks like the description for this function and its prototype are
> > > way out of sync. There's no explanation for TOK, and mysterious
> > > references to CLOSE_COMMIT_FN and CLOSE_COMMIT_BATON.
> > >
> > > I think it's pretty important to keep the docs up to date, even when
> > > time is tight.
> > >
> > >
> > > /* Do a depth-first crawl of the local changes in a working copy,
> > > beginning at ROOT_DIRECTORY (absolute path). Communicate all local
> > > changes (both textual and tree) to the supplied EDIT_FNS object
> > > (coupled with the supplied EDIT_BATON).
> > >
> > > (Presumably, the client library will someday grab EDIT_FNS and
> > > EDIT_BATON from libsvn_ra, and then pass it to this routine. This
> > > is how local changes in the working copy are ultimately translated
> > > into network requests.)
> > >
> > > A function and baton for completing this commit must be set in
> > > *CLOSE_COMMIT_FN and *CLOSE_COMMIT_BATON, respectively. These are
> > > not so much for the caller's sake as for close_edit() in the
> > > editor, and they should be set before close_edit() is called. See
> > > svn_ra_get_commit_editor() for an example of how they might be
> > > obtained.
> > > */
> > > svn_error_t *
> > > svn_wc_crawl_local_mods (svn_string_t *root_directory,
> > > svn_delta_edit_fns_t *edit_fns,
> > > void *edit_baton,
> > > svn_string_t *tok,
> > > apr_pool_t *pool);
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