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Re: Returning revprops through commit info

From: Julian Foad <julian.foad_at_wandisco.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:24:19 +0100

On Thu, 2010-08-12, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> Recently, we've updated the various client APIs which do commits to
> return commit info back through a callback[1], since they may be
> extended to perform multiple commits (see issue #1199 for instance).
> In doing so, I've had the opportunity to take a look at the
> svn_commit_info_t struct. It's pretty simplistic, but includes fields
> for the author and date.
>
> In 1.6 (I believe) we changed the various log and commit APIs to use a
> hash of arbitrary revision properties, rather than a hard coded list.
> I wonder if it's worth it to do so in the commit_info struct. We'd
> still keep the existing fields for compat, but we would also add a
> hash of revision properties, for consistency with the other APIs, and
> for greater future extensibility.
>
> Thoughts?

+1.

- Julian

> -Hyrum
>
> [1] The callback was added as a member of the client context, instead
> of a per-API func/baton set. This choice was somewhat arbitrary, and
> conversations with Mark regarding the same in the JavaHL wrappers have
> made me wonder if we should go with the explicit func/baton args,
> rather than using the client ctx. Anybody have any strong feelings
> about this issue?
Received on 2010-08-16 12:25:02 CEST

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