Re: svn commit: r34914 - branches/http-protocol-v2/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Ben Collins-Sussman
<sussman_at_red-bean.com> wrote:

> is an interesting problem. Perhaps we want to distinguish
> two sorts of callers:
>
> * clients who are calling svn_ra_get_youngest_revnum()
> * internal serf routines who need to know what HEAD is
>
> The former audience needs a network request to happen, but the latter
> audience is generally fine with using the "latest cached" value. So
> I could revert this bit of change which makes youngest_revnum() look
> for a cached value, and move that logic into a helper function
> instead, used by other serf routines.

OK, I've done this in r35220. Serf's implementation of the public
svn_ra_get_youngest_revnum() *always* makes a network request, so that
there's no chance of getting a stale HEAD value. I created a new
internal func which attempts to try the cached HEAD first.

Ironically, after all this work, I can't find a single bit of interal
serf code that needs to discover HEAD, other than (maybe?)
svn_ra_serf__get_dir(). Is that a reasonable candidate for "just
used the latest cached value of HEAD"?
Received on 2009-01-13 22:30:23 CET