Re: depth of the operation vs. depth of the WC

Karl Fogel wrote:
> "Rui, Guo" <timmyguo_at_mail.ustc.edu.cn> writes:
>> The second is the --changelist, which seems to honor the depth option in the
>> implementation of "svn update". I'd not had time to read the document about
>> it yet. So, does it interfere with the logic of sparse-directories?
>
> Er, actually I don't know. Do you see any interfering behaviors?

--changelist behaves as a filter, one which applies after depth is taken
into account.

Now 'svn update --changelist' was an oddity in the implementation. If you
see the bottom of notes/changelist-design.txt, you'll find this explanation
of how 'svn update' differs from other libsvn_client APIs which actually
accept a set of changelists as input:

   'svn update' presents an interesting challenge, too. The public
   svn_client_update3() API takes a list of paths, and returns a list
   of revision numbers to which those paths were updated. Each path is
   treated as, effectively, a separate update -- complete with output
   line that notes the updated-to revision. So, if we do changelist
   expansion outside the API, we might turn a single-target operation
   into a multi-target one, and the user sees N full updates processes
   happen. If we push 'changelists' down into the API, we can fake a
   single update with notification tricks. But that starts to get
   nasty when we look at non-file changelist support later and the
   interactions with externals and such. And if we push 'changelists'
   all the way down into the update editor, then we've got a mess of a
   whole 'nuther type, downloading tons of server data we won't use,
   and so on. [RESOLUTION: Let the command-line client do the
   changelist path expansion.]

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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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