Re: svnrdump: Faking revision 0

Hi again,

Ramkumar Ramachandra writes:
> svn:sync-from-url - it's clear why svnsync needs this. After the
> `init`, subsequent calls to `sync` needs this information, but isn't
> given it explicitly.

We can keep this.

> svn:sync-currently-copying and svn:sync-last-merged-rev - `sync` needs
> to know how many revisions to copy.

I looked more closely and found out that these headers have to be
updated everytime a revision is written (hooked into revstart and
revfinish functions). Since we write immediately to the stream, we
cannot use this technique- to enable resume support, we must actually
look at the tail of the dumpfile supplied and see which revision was
dumped last. Hence, I'm dropping these two headers.

> svn:sync-from-uuid - I'm not sure why svnsync NEEDS this, but I
> suppose it's just for completeness/ elegance.

We can keep this.

> svn: date - I'm guessing that this is the date the repository was
> created, as opposed to the date of the original checkin. This should
> be possible to get via the RA API I think, althought I haven't figured
> out how.

It turns out that this is a REAL revision property that I can get by
passing a 0 revision argument to svn_ra_rev_proplist.

-- Ram
Received on 2010-07-23 12:42:01 CEST