Re: Handling RA extensions between 1.x releases

Greg Hudson wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 23:26, Branko Čibej wrote:
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>> * How does a new server know it's talking to an old client?
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>So far, we haven't needed to answer that question (at least, post-1.0;
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I know, that's why I asked. :-) We obviously will need an answer before 1.1.

>the pipeline editor changes in ra_svn needed the answer to that
>question, but they went in pre-1.0).
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>But, the answer is:
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> * ra_svn: Capability strings in the greeting, or by tacking stuff onto
>the end of tuples when that's simpler. (For edit pipelining, I used a
>capability string; for the repos root, we tacked it onto the end of one
>of the server messages during the greeting.)
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So the svnserve protocol ignores extra info at the end of command strings?

> * ra_dav: Typically, by making the client request new behavior with a
>property, like we did with the "send-all" property in r7727 with fast
>updates.
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>
Both sound reasonable. Thanks.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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