On Tue, 04 Oct 2005, Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
...
> > The problem with this approach is the scenario when the command is showing
> > you info about a new item in the repository. In that scenario the
> > svn_wc_entry_t is currently null because there is no entry in the WC. We
> > did not feel comfortable changing this into a partially populated
> > structure. This was also the main scenario where Subclipse absolutely
> > needs to get a URL and Node kind. That is why we needed the second URL and
> > kind fields. So, the only way the second URL can be removed is if you are
> > willing to have svn_wc_entry_t in the structure that only has the URL
> > populated (when it is a new file in the repository).
>
> Can't we just rename the URL field from ood_url to url and always populate
> it with the entries URL. We can share this data with the svn_wc_entry if
> it exists, so the cost is just an extra pointer in the svn_wc_status2_t
> struct.
We could do this Peter, though it would slightly complicate the
implementation in that the data for that field might come from the
repository in the case of a new item having been added to the repository
since the last update of the working copy (which is effectively an out of
date WC).
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Received on Tue Oct 4 19:27:26 2005