Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote on Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:38:25 +0530:
> Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > svnrdump needs an inequality check here. But 'svnadmin load', for
> > example, needs an "is at most" check. So I don't think this is generic
> > enough: it would be better to provide something that 'svnadmin load' can
> > use too.
> >
> > So, two options:
> >
> > * Repeat the parse_format_version() trick (from load.c) in svnrdump.
>
> It's actually not possible. If I read one line of the dumpstream in
> load_editor.c and then call svn_repos_parse_dumpstream2, the function
> won't have the version number information because I've already read
> that out from the dumpstream, and I can't rewind the stream.
Yeah, I haven't slept properly in three days, and that's the result :(.
When I made the suggestion, I thought parse_format_version() lives in
svnadmin/main.c. Clearly I was hallucinating.
> Note that as you already pointed out on IRC, parse_format_version
> imposes a maximum already (load.c:647).
>
> > * In the API, PARSE_FNS could grow a dumpfile_version_record() callback
> > (like it has a uuid_record()) callback. The caller can implement
> > whatever check they want in that callback. (possibly with a special
> > error code that svn_repos_parse_dumpstreamN() recognizes; compare
> > usage of SVN_ERR_CANCELLED)
>
> Excellent idea; too much work for one patch though- I'll add a TODO
> comment about this and re-post the patch.
>
I see you've posted a separate patch now.
> -- Ram
Received on 2010-08-19 09:12:29 CEST