Re: To: Stefan Sperling

Quoting Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de>:

> You should definitely read the Hacker's Guide to Subversion.
> I read it, too, when I started. HACKING (we call the guide HACKING)
> suggests to read some header files:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/hacking.html#code-to-read
>
> Reading the header files helped me a lot when I started looking at
> Subversion's code.
>

Hi HuiHang,

after reading header files for a while, it might be helpful to read
the second chapter of the book "Beautiful Code". The chapter
describes some of Subversion's central data structures, and was
written by Karl Fogel, a Subversion founder. Free to read at

http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/beautiful-code/bc-chapter-02.html

Note that there's a plan to replace the svn_delta_editor API
(described in the book) with a new, more flexible API.

http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-04/0039.shtml

As you work on your multi-WC commit feature, I'm sure you'll become
an expert on both APIs.

Steve

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