On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 17:46 +0100, Julian Foad wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 12:30 -0400, Mark Phippard wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Julian Foad
> > <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com> wrote:
> > > I am merging the tree-conflicts branch to trunk today. This is by no
> > > means "finished". Some tree-conflict behaviour is not yet done or not
> > > yet as we want it. The merge is to facilitate further work in this area.
> >
> > For those that work off trunk builds ... I am assuming that the WC
> > format is now bumped due to the new tree-conflict values in entries?
>
> Oh... no. The format of the entries file is changed, but there is no
> code to change or use a new format number. Sorry - I remember you
> mentioned this a long time ago.
>
> As I understand it, a format number "bump" is required if we're changing
> the format. Therefore we have to implement this before merging to trunk,
> otherwise existing working copies will be broken. Is that right? (Given
> that I can tell you that the code just writes and reads an extra field,
> with no special magic to attempt to make it backward compatible.)
In 'subversion/libsvn_wc/README' it says:
"Empty fields that are only followed by empty fields may be omited from
the record."
That should mean that the tree-conflicts branch could read an existing
WC perfectly. However, this format description doesn't say anything
about compatibility in the other direction.
I'm looking at the code now to see what I think will happen, and will
try some experiments too.
- Julian
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Received on 2008-09-15 18:52:55 CEST