Re: RFC: Make apply_textdelta unconditional

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 16:01, Greg Stein wrote:
> No, it was really early ra_svn. There was something about being able to pass
> in INVALID_REVNUM to mean "head", but that horked up something because it
> had to be resolved, yet ra_svn was trapped within an editor drive and
> couldn't "escape" to run a distinct request. As a result, a lot of the
> client code calls RA->get_latest_revnum() before doing any work.

Oh, right, now I remember. Yes, ra_svn does impose ordering constraints
on the ra_lib interface which didn't exist before (because it's a
stateful protocol), and there was one place in the code which didn't
already obey those constraints. Your point stands; sometimes the tail
does have to wag the dog.

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Received on Mon Jun 2 22:12:17 2003