Re: Status of new working copy format

Ed Hillmann <edhillmann@yahoo.com> wrote on 08/30/2006 06:29:27 PM:

> I've been contributing the the Subversion module for Netbeans.
> Specifically, I've added a Working Copy parser, so the module can access

> status and info details for a file by directly parsing the working copy.
>
> I've noticed that SVN 1.4 has changed the format of the working copy. So

> I've updated the parser to handle both formats (using the 1.4 rc 4
release).
>
> I wanted to ask if I should expect more tweaking of the new working copy
(I
> just noticed that rc 5 just came out). I'd love to have this committed,
so
> that as soon as SVN 1.4 comes out, we can cope with either working copy
format.
>
> However, if there are more changes expected, I'll make sure I go back to
re-
> rest with the latest iteration of the working copy format.

It isn't a great idea to be doing your own parsing, but to answer your
question, the format will stay the same for 1.4. If it were to change
now, pretty much impossible, the format number would have to be bumped.

There is a decent chance it will be bumped again in 1.5.

Mark

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Received on Thu Aug 31 00:53:16 2006