Hi Michael,
> I've considered this enhancement in the past, but I usually
> find myself back
> at "If most folks don't need the deep stuff in the tree,
> maybe that stuff
> should go live elsewhere in the repository and be explicitly
> checked out by
> folks that care." That said, I'm not opposed to this advisory depth
> property idea.
Unfortunately we're constrained by our tools as to the macro
structure of our file tree. Things have to be in certain
places if they're present.
> I do wonder (aloud, apparently) how we'd implemented such a
> thing in the
> checkout logic, since we currently do checkouts as one giant
> negotiation:
> C> "I need a checkout of a tree"; S> "Here ya go" *boom*. We
> don't really
> have in place today a way to negotiate at each directory
> level what the
> server transmits. I mean, we can kinda do it when we know up
> front at what
> depth every tree item should be fetched, but we'd need to
> first crawl the
> whole repository tree looking for advisory depths in order to
> make use of that.
Hmmm. Yes, I was sort of wondering that. Do the directory
properties get sent over with the tree? If so, it might be
possible to do a naïve implementation along the lines of a 1.5
client with a 1.4 server, where the server just obeys the
depth on the command, and the client does any advisory filtering.
I think this would be acceptable here, certainly as a first pass
- initial checkout is a slow process anyway...
Or maybe I'm talking out of the back of my head - I have only
a cursory familiarity with the protocol.
Cheers,
Ian Brockbank
Principal Applications Software Engineer
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