Re: Contributing to Subversion

Brian Denny <brian@briandenny.net> writes:
> the HACKING file (at the root of the source tree) gives a suggested order
> for looking at source files (and other good advice about how to get
> started).
>
> being relatively new to subversion hacking myself, i can tell you that
> i started out by looking at those files, reading the design document,
> and reading the book... but it was all very abstract until i picked a
> little task, and stepped through the code in a debugger until i
> understood the relevant bits of code...

Yah, +1 on picking a specific task and then struggling through it.
But I would add that reading subversion/include/svn_*.h will probably
be a big help, in particular:

   svn_delta.h
   svn_ra.h
   svn_client.h
   svn_fs.h
   svn_repos.h

I think those five give a good middle-level view of how things work.

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Received on Thu Mar 27 19:57:10 2003