Re: svn client api comments

On Mar 13, 2005, at 20:46, Peter N. Lundblad wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Barry Scott wrote:
>
>> On Mar 12, 2005, at 14:24, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>>
>> * support depth rather then recurse everywhere - rejected as "I'm not
>> convinced"
>> - for ls, propget, proplist, status, diff
>
> I'm convinced, and I think others are. There just haven't been time
> for it
> yet.

Good. The last time I discussed this on the list the end result was
negative.

>> * implement cat from the wc - bug over a year old
>
> Is there an issue? I haven't looked, but it shouldn't be too hard.

Yes. And its apparently very hard to fix. How the WC API can fail to
make this trivial is an interesting question.

>
>> * make sure that performance is reasonable
>> - propget, proplist is very slow if you want all the props for all
>> file in one dir
>>
> That depends on depth == 1, doesn't it

Yes.

>> Is there any chance of getting svn core to accept patches for that
>> lot?
>
> I'd says so, yes. But, ofcourse, I can't give a definitive answer. I
> don't see any problems with the above.

That's good to hear.

Barry

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Received on Mon Mar 14 20:49:24 2005