Re: [wc-propcaching]: Cache existence of certain properties

On 11/10/05, Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> wrote:
> This patch adds the ability to cache whether certain properties exist in
> the entries file. It does not cache their values.
>
> This massively speeds up operations like update and commit, which need
> to know about certain properties on each file or directory.
>
> The implementation simply stores an extra attribute in the entries file,
> which is a string containing the names of the properties that are
> cached, and exist for a file/directory.
>
> It was decided to use a single string for simplicity, and because using
> multiple attributes doesn't actually buy you anything (in any case,
> adding or removing to the list of cached properties will require format
> upgrades).
>
> The string has no particular ordering properties, and is space
> separated.
>
> The list of cached properties is also stored as a single string, comma
> separated. A new function, svn_wc_cached_properties, will return this
> list of cached properties. It is kept as a string again for simplicity.
> Only the things updating the props file want to be able to split it into
> an array, and do so. The getter functions simply want to know if the
> property they are asking about is in the list, and we can just use
> strstr for that.
>
I see problem here. For example if in future we will have property
"svn:needs-lock" and "svn:need". strstr() will find substring
"svn:need" in case when property "svn:needs-lock" exists. I consider
this is problem.

PS: Also you patch contain tab symbols, Subversion team don't use tab
spaces in sourcecode.

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Ivan Zhakov