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Re: Problems with the documentation of Subversion dump format

From: Mark Mielke <mark_at_mark.mielke.cc>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:44:50 -0500

It is also worth pointing out that your response, Stefan, is very will
written and reasonable and I'm putting it on my "to think about" pile.
Thank you.

On 12/31/2011 07:10 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> To fix your svn:author problem, you or someone else in this community
> could try to come up with a useful set of conventions for storing extra
> information in svn:author or another revision property, and what the syntax
> to store such information would look like. Because, as you already pointed
> out, your problem is rooted in a lack of conventions, so this is what we'd
> need to address. If needed, also specify a way of how Subversion could be
> configured by users to optionally enable this new feature so users can reap
> the associated benefits. If someone writes a nice spec we can file an
> enhancement request in the issue tracker asking for someone to implement it.
> But if the spec touches on unrelated aspects (such as merging moves), I'd
> suggest to put those in a separate set of suggestions and dev@ threads.
>
> To fix your merging moves problem, you could join the currently on-going
> efforts to fix it. In particular we are currently working, and are looking
> for help, in these areas:
> 1) Making muti-layer nested local moves properly (e.g. moves within locally
> copied subtrees) -- simpler local move situations are already implemented.
> 2) Detecting server-side moves -- some prototype code exists but there
> are many things left to design, specify, and implement, especially
> regarding the means we're going to offer users to solve tree conflicts
> involving moves.
> While it is always welcome, there is no need to go to the effort of
> contributing code. Useful contributions can be made with much less effort.
> For instance, it helps a lot if you think about aspects of this (very large)
> problem space and try to describe how you'd like Subversion to behave in
> use cases which are important to you. Some, but not all, of the current
> behaviour design around moves is made without user input. For many use cases
> no proper design even exists yet. So more input is definitely welcome.
> And *now* is the time to submit your input, before a lot of code has been
> written that implements behaviour which may or may not turn out to be
> ideal for your situation. Thanks.

-- 
Mark Mielke<mark_at_mielke.cc>
Received on 2011-12-31 19:45:24 CET

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