Re: Consistency between 'update' and 'switch' APIs

Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com> writes:

> Backwards compatibility. svn_repos_dir_delta had ignore-ancestry since
> 1.0, it was added in r845731, and switch operated with ignore-ancestry
> set false. r1087015 started making switch require history between the

Oops! Set true, i.e. ancestry was ignored.

> nodes, with a switch to get the old behaviour. At this stage the
> history check was purely a client side check of the relationship between
> the nodes, the RA/repos layers still ignored ancestry during switch.
>
> r1449413 passes the ignore-ancestry flag over RA to repos so that switch
> now takes full account of ancestry.

-- 
Philip