Bill Tutt <billtut@microsoft.com> writes:
> Heh, oh sure, tempt we with the data, and then don't tell me which
> functions give me the data.... :)
> Do we have the "IsValidSVNDirectory()" function yet?
Sorry -- I know you needed concrete answers :-). Am working on some
other questions right now, but will figure out which of your needed
functions already exist and which don't before eod.
-K
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Fogel [mailto:kfogel@galois.collab.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 6:34 AM
> To: Bill Tutt
> Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: UI needs some data questions
>
> Bill Tutt <billtut@microsoft.com> writes:
> > While thinking about this, I came up with some questions that the UI
> needs
> > to ask either the libsvn_client, or libsvn_wc bits.
> >
> > What is the Working Copy Rev# of file A?
> > What is the Last Modified Date of the Working Copy Rev# we have for
> file A?
>
> This information is stored, yup. And there are (or will be)
> interfaces to retrieve it -- you don't have to parse SVN/ metadata
> yourself.
>
> > Answering these two questions lets us determine "Has this been
> touched",
> > which in turn lets us do something pretty in the file list part of the
> UI.
>
> Also recorded (via timestamp, and possibly later checksum).
>
> > One more additional question:
> > Does this directory have valid SVN meta-data?
>
> Yup. The presence of an SVN/ subdir is not the only qualification --
> actually, the spec is that once SVN/README is written, then we have a
> valid working copy dir. So when creating new wc dirs, we make sure
> that SVN/README is the last thing created in SVN/. :-)
>
> Of course, again, you don't have to know this, you just have to use
> the right function to ask the question.
>
> > This allows us to differentiate between folders in the file system
> that are
> > Working Copy directories, and those that are normal file system
> directories
> > in the UI. Which is fairly important given my first statement.
>
> Definitely!
>
> -K
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:18 2006