I'm replying to a thread off of gcc-devel, but as I think I may have just
had a thought that hasn't already been chewed through. So, I'm shifting to
subversion-devel. If I'm wrong and this is already debunked, just shoot me
down...
Branko Čibej wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:
>>
>>
>>> Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>
>>>> More formally, you can say that any file in the checkout is made of
>>>> BASE/DIR/filename where BASE is the URL passed to the latest `svn co'
>>>> or svn switch' command.
>>>>
>>> The current SVN working copy philosophy (the same as CVS's, by the way)
>>> is that every working copy directory is self-contained. If we start
>>> recording command parameters in the working copy, we break that
>>> property.
>>>
>>
>> Isn't this what the "Repository Root" from svn info gives?
>>
> No, that's the root of the repository, not the parameter given to "svn
> co".
>
> If you
>
> svn co svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk
>
> the repository root that gets recorded is
>
> svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc
>
> The same root is recorded if you
>
> svn co svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/bounded-pointers-branch
>
> -- Brane
Sure. But svn info also knows (and has known for far longer) the URL.
and URL with the Repository-Root prefix whacked off is BASE/DIR. So that
info is obtainable.
Actually, I just had a thought I haven't seen proposed before (and I have
followed several of these discussions). This wouldn't have worked before
1.3, since we didn't know the repository root, but it ought to Perhaps
(stealing a page from patch) a good, and familiar 'swizzle' syntax would be
-pN:/path where N is the number of initial directories to prune between the
repository root and the current URL, and /path is the prefix to tack on
instead.
so, for the most common cases, we'd have
which would do
# svn info
URL: svn://root/trunk/subdir
Repository-Root: svn://root
# svn diff -p1:/branches/foo bar.c baz.c (trunk to branch)
which would mean:
# svn diff --old svn://root/trunk/subdir --new
svn://root/branches/foo/subdir bar.c baz.c
-----
# svn info
URL: svn://root/branches/foo/subdir
Repository-Root: svn://root
#svn diff -p2:/trunk bar.c baz.c (branch to trunk)
which would mean:
#svn diff --old svn://root/branches/foo/subdir --new svn://root/trunk/subdir
bar.c baz.c
This feels like it translates pretty straightforwardly onto the existing
--old and --new primitives, doesn't break the SVN "it's a filesystem"
paradigm, and it's pretty agreably terse for common operations and
repository layouts.
It probably needs some way to reverse the interpretation of old and new,
since reversing the order and doing -p/path:2 looks weird and has a quoting
problem to find the :. Maybe +pN:/path? Or just svn diff --reverse.
It's mildly annoying to have to think about the depth of the current WC, but
I don't really think it's too bad - it wouldn't work well for scripting,
but --old and --new work find for that - scripts don't mind the typing.
Ok, here goes nuthin'...
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Received on Fri Nov 4 01:42:58 2005