Re: svn client api comments

On Mar 14, 2005, at 14:50, C. Michael Pilato wrote:

> Barry Scott <barry@barrys-emacs.org> writes:
>
>> The problems I see with svn_client API are:
>>
>> * support depth rather then recurse everywhere - rejected as "I'm not
>> convinced"
>> - for ls, propget, proplist, status, diff
>> * implement cat from the wc - bug over a year old
>> * make sure that performance is reasonable
>> - propget, proplist is very slow if you want all the props for all
>> file in one dir
>
> These are all problems that one or more of Subversion full committers
> have been annoyed by -- you aren't alone.

Is there a design for the API with a depth param, or do you want
proposals?

Why is cat so hard to fix? How come diff can do a cat of BASE and a cat
of
WORKING without contacting the repos? Why don't they share code?

>> Is there any chance of getting svn core to accept patches for that
>> lot?
>> And its quite a lot of new code.
>
> Yes.

Thanks.

Barry

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Received on Mon Mar 14 20:50:21 2005