Re: Regarding issue #3348 ("Provide syntax which means 'include all files *not* in a changelist'")

On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 09:46:20AM +0000, Bert Huijben wrote:
> How would an old client that links to the 1.7 level api ‘ask’ a user
> something new during upgrade?

How would such a client be able to upgrade a working copy to the
1.8 format in the first place?

> We should just rename the list to something unique or something... ‘svn’
> can ask things, but the api can’t.
> (Other new clients can also ask of course, but in general other api users
> can’t)

We can also rename it, but that gets a bit ugly because you have to
consider the case where the changelist you want to rename to also
exists. I suppose we could try '_none', then '__none', and so on.
Received on 2013-01-06 15:38:13 CET