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Re: [PATCH 02/13] Add skeleton SVN client and Makefile

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 11:25:16 -0500

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

> Add a basic SVN command-line client along with a Makefile that does
> just enough to establish a connection with the ASF subversion server;

Thanks for splitting this out.

Let’s see what’s needed to set up a connection:

> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> +svndumpr: *.c *.h
> + $(CC) -Wall -Werror -DAPR_POOL_DEBUG -ggdb3 -O0 -o $@ svndumpr.c -lsvn_client-1 -I. -I/usr/include/subversion-1 -I/usr/include/apr-1.0

Links against libsvnclient-1. Good.

I assume the details of the Makefile are not important, since it is
probably going to be revamped in the style of the svn build system
anyway.

> +++ b/svndumpr.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
[...]
> +svn_error_t *populate_context()
[...]
> +svn_error_t *open_connection(const char *url)
[...]
> +svn_error_t *replay_range(svn_revnum_t start_revision, svn_revnum_t end_revision)

Why not static?

> +svn_error_t *populate_context()
> +{
> + const char *http_library;
> +
> + SVN_ERR(svn_config_get_config(&(ctx->config), NULL, pool));
> +
> + http_library = getenv("SVN_HTTP_LIBRARY");
> + if (http_library)
> + svn_config_set(apr_hash_get(ctx->config, "servers", APR_HASH_KEY_STRING),
> + "global", "http-library", http_library);

I tried googling for this SVN_HTTP_LIBRARY setting, but no
useful hints. I take it that this overrides the [global] http-library
setting from ~/.subversion/servers? Do other commands honor this
environment variable or just svndumpr?

[...]
> +svn_error_t *open_connection(const char *url)
> +{
> + SVN_ERR(svn_config_ensure (NULL, pool));
> + SVN_ERR(svn_client_create_context (&ctx, pool));
> + SVN_ERR(svn_ra_initialize(pool));
> +
> +#if defined(WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
> + if (getenv("SVN_ASP_DOT_NET_HACK"))
> + SVN_ERR(svn_wc_set_adm_dir("_svn", pool));
> +#endif

I guess it’s water under the bridge now (from 5 years ago), but why do
clients have to do this themselves? It would not be so difficult for
libsvnclient to automatically set the admin dir according to whether
SVN_ASP_DOT_NET_HACK is set or not, or at least to provide a single
function to call and do so.

But that is not the topic for the moment. I am tempted to suggest
checking SVN_ASP_DOT_NET_HACK unconditionally (i.e., on Unix, too),
just so the function is easier to scan. Or there could be a separate
set_appropriate_adm_dir function in svndumpr.c:

        #if defined(WIN32) || ...
        static svn_error_t *set_appropriate_adm_dir(...)
        {
                if (getenv...
                ...
        }
        #else
        static svn_error_t *set_appropriate_adm_dir(...
        {
                return SVN_NO_ERROR;
        }
        #endif

Feel free to ignore me here. :)

> +
> + SVN_ERR(populate_context());
> + SVN_ERR(svn_cmdline_create_auth_baton(&(ctx->auth_baton), TRUE,
> + NULL, NULL, NULL, FALSE,
> + FALSE, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> + pool));

Maybe comments would help, for the boolean arguments.

> + SVN_ERR(svn_client_open_ra_session(&session, url, ctx, pool));
> + return SVN_NO_ERROR;
> +}
> +
> +svn_error_t *replay_range(svn_revnum_t start_revision, svn_revnum_t end_revision)
> +{
> + return SVN_NO_ERROR;
> +}

Might be more self-explanatory without this function, but that
is just nitpicking.

> +
> +int main()
> +{
> + const char url[] = "http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf";
> + svn_revnum_t start_revision = 1, end_revision = 500;
> + if (svn_cmdline_init ("svndumpr", stderr) != EXIT_SUCCESS)
> + return 1;
> +
> + pool = svn_pool_create(NULL);
> +
> + SVN_INT_ERR(open_connection(url));
> + SVN_INT_ERR(replay_range(start_revision, end_revision));
> +
> + svn_pool_destroy(pool);
> +
> + return 0;
> +}

So: this is an expensive no-op.

Thanks for the pleasant reading.

Jonathan
Received on 2010-07-07 19:13:54 CEST

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