Re: svn commit: rev 3812 - branches/autoversion/subversion/mod_dav_svn

Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com> writes:

> If you want some help with this code, let me know. I don't have too much
> time, but my work on mirror_dir_through_svn.cgi was in reaction to not
> having autoversioning.

I'd love help from anyone! I'm not working on this feature during
Collabnet time..., so I can't work on it as often as I want.

The big "hurdles" in getting started (which took me forever) are:

  1. understanding the WebDAV and DeltaV specs.

     It's a matter of hunkering down and reading them straight
     through, in order. I wrote a compressed summary in
     /trunk/notes/webdav-general-summary, hoping to make the path
     clearer for others. Talking to gstein a lot helps too. :-)

  2. understanding how mod_dav and mod_dav_svn work together to
     implement various parts of the spec. There's a huge amount of
     code to read.

     I've documented my plan /trunk/notes/autoversioning-strategy.txt,
     and others have put running commentary in there as well. My
     plan, for the moment, is to simply make PUTs work, and avoid the
     whole LOCK/UNLOCK can of worms. That's "phase 2" of
     autoversioning, and a separate discussion.

If you can get over these rather intimidating hurdles, then the
actual amount of coding isn't too big. The autoversion branch of
mod_dav_svn currently only contains /* ### TODO */ comments in the
appropriate places. I'm going to start filling in these places with
code.

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Received on Sun Nov 17 05:00:03 2002