Re: more property thoughts

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:14:29PM -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>...
> Greg thinks we should stop categorizing props so much. RA->get_file
> is going to return all 3 categories of props in a single hash. I plan
> for the update-editor's change_file_prop() to stop categorizing as
> well -- just cache the propchanges, let someone else sort them out.
> Similarly, our new svn_wc_install_file() is going to be receiving a
> single uncategorized list of properties.

Ah! Yes yes yes.

> That's all fine and well, but if we move to this new paradigm of 'a
> proplist means *all* props', then we need to go -both- directions.
> IOW, when we receive a proplist from the server, somebody eventually
> ends up parsing the property namespaces and storing them in 3
> different locations. But just as often, the merging process (and
> other processes) require reading existing proplists from disk (for
> comparisons, etc.) So we'll need a single 'read_proplist' routine
> that will *suck* the data from 3 locations and combine them into one
> hash.

I don't think this needs to happen. The WC and entry props don't participate
in diffs or get sent to the server. In fact, the WC doesn't (and can't) use
the WC props for anything.

Now I haven't done an analysis of all the places we *read* properties, but
my initial suspicion is that we won't need to glom them together.

Cheers,
-g

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