I'm busy teaching ra_dav to use/send lock tokens when committing.
First: after building a repository transaction (Delta V "activity"),
the svn client performs the final commit by sending a MERGE request
whose source is the activity. This causes all of our checked-out
working-resources to be "auto-checked-in". But does this have any
effect on locks attached to these resources? My guess is "no" -- after
the MERGE, the locks still remain by default. Is that correct?
Second: this final MERGE request needs to send every lock token that
was attached to every committed file. According to spec, this is
normally done in the "If:" header. But apache has an 8K length limit
per request header. Given that our tokens are about 56 bytes long,
that means a hard limit of about 130 locks. This is a real problem;
it's easy to conceive of a large commit uploading changes to more than
130 locked files. What can we do here?
--> can mod_dav_svn temporarily turn off the limitation on the
length of the If: header?
--> if not, can we send the tokens in custom XML in the request
body? Does the DeltaV spec allow that? Even worse, will that break a
1.0 server?
(In the absolute worst-case scenario, I guess an svn 1.2 client can
always invent a new REPORT request as a way of performing the final
commit. If an older server returns a "report request not recognized"
error, the client could retry a MERGE request without tokens. Is it
even a plausible scenario that an svn client might be managing tokens
in a working copy, and trying to commit to a 1.0 server?)
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Received on Tue Jan 18 22:58:45 2005