On 21.08.2012 22:28, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
>>> On 21.08.2012 21:37, Mark Phippard wrote:
> ...
>>>> People could do a lot with that, and if
>>>> it is easier to attach the client version to the txn properties, then
>>>> that is another good reason.
>>>>
>>>> IMO, we have had a LOT of users@ requests for the client version in
>>>> hook scripts.
>>> Yeah, well, if these requests can also define what the client version
>>> actually is, we can start thinking about a solution. In the meantime,
>>> I'd prefer this information to not be mixed with revision properties;
>>> not least because I can't think of a way of preventing older servers
>>> from just writing such props into the repository.
>> Mike would have to answer that, but ISTR that the client/server
>> negotiation kept the client from sending this information. So older
>> servers would not get the props.
> Actually, as an svn admin, I wouldn't mind having the version revprops
> written to the repository. That can be very interesting information,
> especially if you're diagnosing some kind of problem, trying to find a
> pattern, pinpointing it to particular clients, ...
>
> Last year I had a couple of situations where I really wanted to find
> out what client (and client-version) had performed a particular
> commit, or trying to find a common pattern between various occurrences
> of strangeness (mostly related to issue #4065 [1], which was first
> "broken" by some git-svn clients, and then later on by some versions
> of svnkit).
>
> But that might be a rather exceptional use case, so not sure if it's
> worth it ...
That sort of thing belongs in server logs, not in the repository.
-- Brane
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Received on 2012-08-21 23:22:49 CEST