Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> As has been discussed on IRC, dev@, and at the summit last week, we're shooting
> for a 1.6.0 release toward the end of December, approximately 6 months after
> 1.5.0. Given that goal, and our typical release cycle, that would mean
> branching near the end of October/beginning of November. So I'm pegging the
> branch date at Nov. 5, 1700 UTC.
>
> I'll follow this up with my standard disclaimer: this date isn't set in stone
> (more like quick drying concrete). If there are serious and valid concerns, we
> can push the date back a week or so, but I'm hesitant to go any farther than that.
>
> In the meantime, please try and be a little conservative about what makes it
> into trunk, so that it's pretty stable when we branch.
Yes, I have a question about that. I tried to use diff to tell
tree-conflicts detection whether two dirs are the same. Thus I found diff
doesn't support most of the cases we need for tree-conflicts.
So I span off into trying to enhance diff --summarize, finding out that even
plain diff for a "supported" case is very much broken.
To make a long story short, in order to fix diff in a sane way and to then
be able to detect tree-conflicts properly, I would need to extend the
(public) diff callbacks API, as in changing callbacks signatures, with minor
repercussions through all code that uses the diff callbacks (e.g. merge).
So there's two sides:
a) It would be nice to have the new API change in 1.6; 1.6 already changes
the same structure in a simpler way (svn_wc_diff_callbacks2_t ->
svn_wc_diff_callbacks3_t), and we would avoid having to change it to
svn_wc_diff_callbacks4_t right in the next release.
b) I would probably have to hurry to get the stuff working.
What do you say, "try and we'll see if it makes it in", or is it a
resounding "nah... forget it"?
Thanks
~Neels
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