C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>>> Actually, it's already documented in the svnbook:
>>>
>>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.pegrevs.html
>>>
>>> Notice the sidebar text there: "Remember that even when you don't
>>> explicitly supply a peg-revision, it's still present. It defaults to
>>> BASE for working copy items, and to HEAD for URLs."
>>>
>>> On 1/3/07, Giovanni Bajo <rasky@develer.com> wrote:
>>>> Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Let me generalize: my understanding is that for *any* command:
>>>>>
>>>>> * URLs pegrevs default to HEAD, unless specified by @N
>>>>> * wc-path pegrevs default to BASE, unless specified by @N
>>>>> * operational revs default to pegrev, unless specified by -rN
>>>> This has been discussed in the past:
>>>> http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-11/1303.shtml
>>>>
>>>> I would like if it could be eventually set in stone and documented (in
>>>> the FAQ
>>>> maybe). I personally value more consistency among different svn commands
>>>> rather than endless debates on the "best" defaults :)
>> Thanks for the pointers. Given this information, where should the
>> defaulting should occur? For 'svn cat' we do it in libsvn_client,
>> whereas for 'svn log' we do it in the client application itself. It
>> doesn't appear to be happening in any single location.
>>
>> Once we decide on the right layer to default, I'll just move all the
>> defaulting behavior there, write a helper function and call it good.
>
> The libsvn_client APIs should implement the defaulting behavior
> themselves, subject (of course) to being overridden by callers who
> provide non-unspecified svn_opt_revision_t's. Why make every client do
> this work?
That makes sense. Given Ben's generalization above, would something
like the following work? It just seems so simple, that I'm concerned
that I'm overlooking something. :)
Index: subversion/libsvn_client/revisions.c
===================================================================
--- subversion/libsvn_client/revisions.c (revision 22879)
+++ subversion/libsvn_client/revisions.c (working copy)
@@ -140,3 +140,24 @@
else
return TRUE;
}
+
+
+svn_error_t *
+svn_client__resolve_revisions(svn_opt_revision_t *peg_rev,
+ svn_opt_revision_t *op_rev,
+ svn_boolean_t is_url)
+{
+ if (peg_rev->kind == svn_opt_revision_unspecified)
+ {
+ if (is_url)
+ peg_rev->kind = svn_opt_revision_head;
+ else
+ peg_rev->kind = svn_opt_revision_base;
+ }
+
+ if (op_rev->kind == svn_opt_revision_unspecified)
+ op_rev->kind = peg_rev->kind;
+
+ return SVN_NO_ERROR;
+}
+
Received on Wed Jan 3 17:24:37 2007