Re: isssue #960 - separate canonical repository URL from repos path in wc

Martin Hauner <hauner@web.de> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> i am interested in doing isssue #960 "separate canonical repository URL
> from repos path in wc"
>
> I started on it with a first small step and before i go on I would like
> to discuss the necessary steps so we agree on the implementation.
>
> some thoughts as a starting point:
>
> - i think it should be backward compatible with the current url entry.
> This will need some code to update the entries files on the fly.

That's a great goal. +1.

> - two new members (repos_url and repos_path) are needed in svn_wc_entry_t
> (see diff..)

This I disagree with. I had always just assumed that we would be
adding nothing but a single svn_wc_entry_t member (repos_url), and a
single XML attribute to match that (repos-url). Determining the
repos_path from the repos_url and url is trivial string math.

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Received on Thu May 1 17:30:10 2003