Re: config dir and svn_config_walk_auth_data

On 26.07.2013 19:19, Stefan Küng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In TSVN I'm using the API svn_config_walk_auth_data(). Unfortunately,
> I'm passing NULL as the first parameter (the config dir path).
> Back when I implemented this, passing NULL worked just fine. Now it
> doesn't anymore - I forgot to test this with the 1.8.0 release, my fault.
>
> The reason that passing NULL doesn't work are these few lines right at
> the beginning of svn_config_walk_auth_data:
> if (! config_dir)
> {
> /* Can't locate the cache to clear */
> return SVN_NO_ERROR;
> }
>
> my question is: why?
> Because if that check is removed, passing NULL works just fine because
> all the other APIs where the config dir is passed as a parameter then
> just find the default config dir path themselves. Why doesn't
> svn_config_walk_auth_data?
>
> Sure, I could use the Windows API to determine the default config path
> myself, but that means I would have to make an assumption about where
> that path is - meaning if the svn lib ever changes that I would have
> to change it as well. In my opinion, svn knows best where it stores
> the config data by default and should act accordingly.
>
> May I suggest to remove the check mentioned above? Simply removing it
> is enough to make this work: passing NULL as the config dir path would
> then mean to use the default, just in the other svn APIs that take the
> config dir path as a parameter.

Agreed. You have commit access; go for it. And I suggest that a backport
is in order, too.

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