"Rui, Guo" <timmyguo_at_mail.ustc.edu.cn> writes:
> I'm working to provide a deselection (or cropping) interface to sparse
> directory. I decided to accomplish it in a straightforward way when
> preparing my proposal: make the existing --set-depth interface in 'svn
> up' work for the deselection purpose. So, the first question is that,
> in which stage of the updating procedure should the cropping take
> place?
>
> Once I believed that the modification would mostly lie in the editor,
> update editor or the wrapper. Now I realize how far from truth I was:
> the editor is driven by the server side while the cropping is a
> self-contained local operation in wc. Even the
> svn_wc_crawl_revision3() is more suitable for the cropping code.
Good explanation. I think we'd all agree with your assessment :-).
> Further consideration makes the crawler less optimal for the cropping
> code either. The cropping may only happens at the target of
> update/switch. The logic is simple and clear: crop the sub-tree
> whenever the requested depth is shallower than the actual depth. It is
> indeed possible to incorporate the cropping logic into the crawler, in
> a way that provide a svn_wc_crop_to_empty() and call it at proper
> positions of the crawler routines. However, the question is, does it
> worth the complexity? The crawler is not designed for driving the
> reporter, rather than cropping. [...]
Did you mean the "not" in the last sentence quoted above?
> In summery, I consider the cropping procedure be rather independent to
> update. And I would like to provide a full featured
> svn_wc_crop_subtree() interface and call it before the crawler. This
> solution make it easier to provide a separate cropping interface. I
> think this is reasonable, since the user may ask: why do I have to
> access the network/repository merely to fold the subtree for disk
> space?
Let me make sure I understand correctly: are you proposing an 'svn crop'
subcommand?
> ps: Do I have to log the deletion of entry before actually remove it
> just as the do_entry_deletion() in update-editor does, or just call
> svn_wc_remove_from_revision_control() directly? I'm not sure of this
> yet.
I think as long as you call svn_wc_remove_from_revision_control *after*
setting the depth of the parent directory to the appropriate new depth,
if any, it's fine. (You'll be passing the 'destroy_wf' flag, right?)
-Karl
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Received on 2008-05-28 17:57:05 CEST