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Re: Patches pending review

From: Noorul Islam K M <noorul_at_collab.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:30:46 +0530

Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 02:49:12PM +0530, Noorul Islam K M wrote:
>
>> Daniel Becroft <djcbecroft_at_gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Hyrum K Wright <
>> > hyrum_at_hyrumwright.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Noorul Islam K M <
>> > noorul_at_collab.net> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > See below in line more information about the patches.
>> > >
>> > > Noorul Islam K M <noorul_at_collab.net> writes:
>> > ...
>> > >> 3. Issue 3690
>> > >>
>> > >>    http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-01/0414.shtml
>> > >>
>> > >>    This is actually an enhancement and there were two
>> > approaches. One
>> > >>    that I initially submitted and another one suggested by
>> > Hyrum. This
>> > >>    thread has three to four patches which are pending review.
>> > May be it
>> > >>    is not getting reviewed because it is not yet finalized how
>> > are are
>> > >>    we going to proceed.
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > Above thread contains patches for issue 3690 which adds an
>> > option
>> > > "--ignore-properties" to log command so that user can ignore
>> > revisions
>> > > which has only property changes.
>> >
>> > I've said multiple times (both in regards to this, as well as the
>> > ignore-mergeinfo-log branch) that I'd appreciate some discussion
>> > surrounding the applicability of these features before committing
>> > them.  Part of me sees the use, as they solve a real usability
>> > problem
>> > in my own life, but another part of me wonders if these are
>> > specific
>> > fixes for which other (non-core) solutions would be appropriate.
>> >
>> > Maybe I should spearhead that discussion, since I'm the guy who
>> > wants
>> > it so badly, but unfortunately my supply of tuits has been quite
>> > low
>> > lately.  I'm just not in any rush to get this work on trunk, as
>> > if we
>> > do add this functionality, I'd like to do it for as many
>> > subcommands
>> > as is reasonable, all in the same release.  And that ain't
>> > happening
>> > before 1.7 (imho).
>> >
>> > -Hyrum
>> >
>> >
>> > My 0.02c - there was a question raised on the users@ list, regarding
>> > the ability to see the changes that *only* relate to properties. The
>> > use case was seeing the log for svn:externals changes on a directory.
>> >
>> > I guess this is the opposite of the above request: one where we can
>> > exclude all property changes, the other where we want nothing but
>> > property changes.
>> >
>>
>> That means we need to have two options, --ignore-properties and
>> --properties-only. Can I work on these two on a private branch?
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>> Noorul
>
> I haven't been following this closely. But as Hyrum points out,
> it seems that more design work is needed before much coding can be done.
>
> Branch or not, you'll need to find a full committer willing to help
> with the design and review the implementation.
>
> The problem with that is that most developers are currently focused
> on working towards the 1.7 release. There is little room at the
> moment for designing new features that aren't planned to appear in 1.7.
>
> So maybe we can postpone work on this feature for later?
>
> In the meantime, there are quite a number of issues with milestones
> 1.7.0 and 1.7-consider. Those are likely to catch more attention at
> the moment, since everyone is focused on getting the release done.
>
> See these two links:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/buglist.cgi?issue_status=UNCONFIRMED&issue_status=NEW&issue_status=STARTED&issue_status=REOPENED&target_milestone=1.7.0
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/buglist.cgi?issue_status=UNCONFIRMED&issue_status=NEW&issue_status=STARTED&issue_status=REOPENED&target_milestone=1.7-consider
>
> It would help tremendously to get any of these issues closed.
>

Fair enough, thank you.

Thanks and Regards
Noorul
Received on 2011-02-15 17:01:39 CET

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