Gavin Beau Baumanis <gavinb_at_thespidernet.com> writes:
> Ping.
> Is there anything left to do with this submission?
> I haven't noticed that it has been committed and Julians comments seem to be unanswered.
>
I think I will not be proceeding further on this patch as of now because
'obliterate' functionality will not be part of 1.7 release.
Thanks and Regards
Noorul
>
> Gavin "Beau" Baumanis
>
>
>
> On 09/12/2010, at 2:43 AM, Julian Foad wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 21:57 +0530, Noorul Islam K M wrote:
>>> Julian Foad <julian.foad_at_wandisco.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 16:06 +0530, Noorul Islam K M wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Julian Foad <julian.foad_at_wandisco.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Noorul Islam K M wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Log
>>>>>>> [[[
>>>>>>> Follow-up to r879452.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> * subversion/libsvn_ra_local/ra_plugin.c
>>>>>>> (svn_ra_local__obliterate_path_rev): Replace call to svn_path_join()
>>>>>>> with svn_dirent_join() function.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Noorul.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why? Please explain.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Because svn_path_join() is deprecated. I could see similar change done in
>>>>> r879452. I thought it will be obvious from the log message because I
>>>>> mentioned the revision.
>>>>
>>>> The problem is that svn_dirent_join() is not a simple drop-in
>>>> replacement for svn_path_join(). The doc string of svn_path_join()
>>>> says:
>>>>
>>>> * New code should use either svn_dirent_join() (for local paths) or
>>>> * svn_uri_join() (for urls) or svn_relpath_join() (for relative paths).
>>>> *
>>>> * @deprecated Provided for backward compatibility with the 1.6 API.
>>>>
>>>> So you have to work out which kind of path is being joined. Have a look
>>>> at where the arguments come from and how the result is used, and read up
>>>> about the three kinds of path mentioned in the doc string, and work out
>>>> which one.
>>>>
>>>> (There is also a fourth kind of path, "fspath" which means a relative
>>>> path starting with "/", and the function svn_fspath__join(), which
>>>> should also be mentioned. I'll update the doc string in a moment, to
>>>> mention that option.)
>>>>
>>>> Also please say how you tested the change: did you run "make
>>>> check" (which combination?)? Did you step through the code in a
>>>> debugger and observe the values? Did you test it in another way?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I did not test it because I thought it is an obvious change. I was
>>> confident that the change was correct. I was sure that it should be
>>> svn_dirent_join() since I was making the change to function
>>> svn_ra_local__obliterate_path_rev under subversion/libsvn_ra_local.
>>
>> This code is indeed in RA-local, but that doesn't mean the paths that it
>> is processing are local disk paths - they are not.
>>
>>> But after reading your mail, I felt my assumptions might have been
>>> wrong. So I went and checked further. It looks like this function is not
>>> implemented for ra_neon, ra_serf and ra_svn. There are two test cases
>>> for obliterate command in test/cmdline and they are all marked as
>>> SKIP. Later I realised that obliterate command is not yet part of svn
>>> command line or am I missing something?
>>
>> You are correct. The obliterate stuff is not implemented for the other
>> RA layers. In addition, I might remove it all from the code base before
>> we branch for 1.7, because it is not developed far enough to be useful.
>> If you want to stop working on this patch, that's fine with me, or if
>> you want to continue, that's fine too.
>>
>> - Julian
>>
>>
Received on 2011-01-03 09:53:01 CET