open by ID (was: Re: New FS API, open_path, cloning and dag_node_t)

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:24:07AM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> Karl Fogel <kfogel@galois.ch.collab.net> writes:
>...
> > A dag_node_t is currently something we can retrieve by key (see
> > svn_fs_id_t). The value associated with that key knows nothing about
> > parent information. So if dag_node_t had a parent fields, then when
> > we retrieve a dag_node_t it would have to be incomplete.
>
> For what it's worth, that interface (creating a dag_node_t given a
> node ID) was only needed by the clone tracking stuff. So that
> function could go away.

Um... a while back, I requested a way to get at a node, given an ID. The
only thing that I need is read-access to the file contents and its
properties. No changes, no parent info, nada.

Cheers,
-g

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