Yeah... it does seem that we can make this part better.
As Mike also noted, the ordering can be totally busted. The Apache
repository is a great example of that.
Cheers,
-g
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com> wrote:
> C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>
>> No, the docs are admittedly flawed in this way. If you use -r {date} and
>> that code has to query a revision that has no datestamp, it raises
>> SVN_ERR_FS_GENERAL to say that it was asked to lookup a date on a revision
>> that doesn't have one. (But note that it doesn't raise
>> SVN_ERR_FS_CORRUPT.)
>> And the book doesn't mention this either (but as you might have seen, I
>> just sent mail off to svnbook-dev@ to remind us to fix that).
>
> Well, that's still broken. If you allow deleting it, then it should skip
> past the revision or make some assumptions about the non-existence of the
> date, not throw an error. Don't allow -r {date} to return it or something.
>
> Blair
>
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