Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
>Karl Fogel wrote:
>
>
>>Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
>>
>>
>>>>Though I would really like to get some kind of an answer that what
>>>>do we want to do with the old style svn_time_to_nts things - is
>>>>there something worth keeping there?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Assuming you provide a script to convert the WC, I don't think
>>>so. It's not worth keeping the month/day name parsing there -- that
>>>should go into apr_strptime.
>>>
>>>
>>I think we can do this without a grand wc conversion.
>>
>>The format currently in .svn/entries is instantly distinguishable
>>from the format we want in the future. Thus, the conversion
>>function that *reads* .svn/entries timestamps merely needs some
>>compatibility code for a while (a few months, whatever). The
>>writers, of course, would just start using the new format as soon as
>>the two-format-accepting reader is in place.
>>
>>
>
>Exactly.
>
>I believe the working directories are no problem - since no "new"
>working directory should ever be accessed with an "old" client, so a
>simple reading compatibility will suffice.
>
>But we must remember that the change is supposed to change the
>timestamp format transmitted through WebDAV as well - so the problem
>is a bit bigger.
>
>If we, for example, change all the date to string functions so that
>they write the new style dates, but parse both old style and new style
>- what will happen in these cases:
>
Don't worry about that sort of version skew, we're still pre-alpha and
can afford to tell people to upgrade their servers and (soon) dump/load
their repos.
>1) Old repository, new client
>
>Will repository get some date string from the client that it cannot
>parse after the change - if so, where?
>
>2) New repository, old client
>
>Will the new repository send dates to the client it cannot parse? Will
>it do this immediately and is it fatal - eg. upgrading repos breaks
>all old clients? Or does it just appear on new commits? Or is it not a
>problem at all?
>
>If push comes to shove, we can probably upgrade both server and
>clients to understand the new format, but still write out the old
>format - and then wait a while (possibly a new tarball) for them to
>spread everywhere - and then change the writer to writing the new
>version. But let's hope we don't have to go into that.
>
>I'll start testing my already changed client sometime soon - but I do
>not have a WebDAV server to play with for the test.
>
>But hopefully these issues can be mapped by just looking at the code,
>not empirically finding out problem spots.
>
>-- Naked
>
>
>
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Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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Received on Tue May 7 22:15:42 2002