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Re: CVS update: subversion/subversion/tests/libsvn_repos repos-test.c

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_lyra.org>
Date: 2001-04-26 02:17:45 CEST

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:22:20PM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> cmpilato@collab.net writes:
>
> > Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:
> >
> > > Is dir_delta obsolete? Does repos_update handle both dirs and files? If not,
> > > then can we make it so?
> >
> > Yes and no. I mean, everything that *we* want to do with dir_delta
> > can be done with repos_update. But Jim expressed concern that being
> > able to describe the differences between any 2 arbitrary filesystem
> > directories might be useful to someone else using the FS interface.
>
> For example, when we want to merge a branch dir into a trunk dir
> someday. Very useful.

Right!

Or simply when you've made a copy and want to compare the two lines of
development.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:29 2006

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