Re: RA properties (was: Re: one more "Greg issue" :-))

Working Copy and Repository Access. They're covered in the SVN design docs.

Cheers,
-g

On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 12:18:28PM -0800, Peter Vogel wrote:
> Can someone help me out a little? What do RA
> and WC stand for? I haven't had much time during
> the holidays to read a lot of detail about subversion
> yet, but I have been trying to keep up with the
> mailing list.
>
> Thanks,
> -Peter
>
> --
> Peter A. Vogel
> Manager, Configuration Management
> Arsin Corporation
> 4800 Great America Parkway Suite 425, Santa Clara, CA 95054
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Karl Fogel [mailto:kfogel@galois.collab.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 10:43 AM
> > To: Greg Stein
> > Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
> > Subject: Re: RA properties (was: Re: one more "Greg issue" :-))
> >
> >
> > Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> > > > Oh, I remember that. I'm just realizing now that it makes me all
> > > > quesy...
> > >
> > > What part? That an RA might need to store data, or that it
> > gets stored in
> > > the WC?
> >
> > Just that there are implementation-specific cookies the network layer
> > needs to store on the client side (the WC being the only place to
> > store it there, obviously). The distinction I'm making is between
> > data that _any_ conceivable implementation must use, such as revision
> > numbers and paths, versus data that only certain implementations use.
> >
> > I'm not totally, unbearably quesy at it, just mildly quesy. I'm sorry
> > I haven't made some sort of non-vague response about this yet. I
> > thought I was going to work through the holidays, but various personal
> > obligations made that unrealistic, so I haven't been full-time this
> > week. :-( Will be able to think about this issue uninterruptedly on
> > Tuesday, though.
> >
> > > I haven't even started on my crusade to get rid of the SVN
> > equivalent for
> > > .cvspass. IMO, that information should be stored in the WC
> > rather than
> > > depending on information associated the user who happens to
> > be logged in and
> > > running the command. The SVN "rc" file can contain
> > defaults, but the actual
> > > values used (could be different from the defaults!) should
> > be stored in the
> > > WC. And since those are (also) RA-specific values, I'm not
> > sure how we can
> > > avoid the basic concept of private RA properties. Now...
> > where we put
> > > those... doesn't matter to me.
> >
> > Oh, wow, *completely* with you on that one. Authentication
> > information should be stored in the WC that resulted from successful
> > authentication.
> >
> > And this is a good argument for the unavoidability of storing
> > implementation-specific data (translation: "data Karl isn't intimately
> > familiar with") in the WC. :-)
> >
> > Yes, I'm seeing your point...
> >

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/