Re: svn log -g on repository root -- ouch

> As for the lack of merge information, it would seem that mergeinfo isn't
> getting fetched for children. Since we rely on svn_fs_get_mergeinfo()
> to provide that information, I suspect it's a problem with that API.

This is the same problem which has also been reported by me in
http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=135949 and
AFAICT it's still present in RC4. I couldn't find any issue regarding
this problem -- will it be addressed for the final 1.5 release?

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Best regards,
Marc Strapetz
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Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> Mark Phippard wrote:
>> $ svn log --limit=25 http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn
>> real    0m2.014s
>> user    0m0.022s
>> sys    0m0.014s
>>
>> $ svn log -g --limit=25 http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn
>> real    7m11.116s
>> user    0m0.023s
>> sys    0m0.013s
>>
>>
>> I do not know how bad it is hurting the server during all that time,
>> but the worst part is that the command output does not even contain
>> any merge information.
> 
> One of the limitations of 'log -g' is that it traces the full history 
> for the paths being examined, so that it can later determine branching 
> information when tracing branch history.  This is much akin to running 
> 'svn log $REPOS_ROOT -r1:HEAD', which also buffers all the log 
> information before sending it.  Running 'log -g' on the repo root causes 
> this, as well as buffering for any merges created.  I know it's ugly, 
> but we need the history information so to determine when merges 
> "re-attach" to a common line of history.
> 
> As for the lack of merge information, it would seem that mergeinfo isn't 
> getting fetched for children.  Since we rely on svn_fs_get_mergeinfo() 
> to provide that information, I suspect it's a problem with that API. 
> Dave, could you take a look at this?
> 
> -Hyrum
> 
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