Re: OWP: Introduction for Gabriela Gibson

Gabriela Gibson wrote on Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 00:21:19 +0000:
> For my initial submission I have written a test for issue 4263 which
> I'll mail shortly. I admit that I struggled to figure out how to
> connect gdb to svnrdump in my build tree (since svnrdump is actually a
> shell script, and svnrdump reads from stdin) but I am now working on a
> fix for 4263.
>

libtool --mode=execute gdb -args subversion/svnrdump/svnrdump

(documentation patches welcome...)

> BTW, I noticed that the python tests in subversion/tests/cmdline/
> don't support a "list" parameter as suggested in
> subversion/tests/README. Is there a reason for this? Otherwise, this
> might something I could fix.

The parameter has been renamed to --list. "foo_tests.py bar" now runs
the "bar" function defined in foo_tests.py (usually one of the functions
enumerated in test_list).

>
> I don't know what I would be doing for my project yet, because I
> realise that the Subversion codebase is large and complicated - my
> learning curve has been both long and steep. However, I feel that I'm
> reaching the point where I can contribute to the project.
>

Great!

> Regards
>
> Gabriela
>
>
Received on 2012-12-11 01:42:17 CET