Hi Noorul,
Thanks for the update - I will remove the thread from my "watch" list.
On 03/01/2011, at 7:50 PM, Noorul Islam K M wrote:
> 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 11:12:13 CET