Move tracking -- creating a commit editor & Ev1 conversion shims

On the 'move-tracking-2' branch I have checked in an API sketch for a move-tracking commit editor API. (It contains two alternative designs in one, side by side, in fact.)

I've called it "svn_editor3_t" (Ev3 for short) for the time being, not wanting to rip out or change the current "Ev2" just yet; but once we get this one a bit more definite, we can rename it to "svn_editor_t" (Ev2) replacing the current Ev2.

Based on recent discussions, the kind of editor we're looking at here is one that works with a per-node concept of branching -- without the idea of a designating certain nodes as "branch root" nodes, nor the idea of "elements" belonging to a branch family. Those ideas of constraining sets of nodes to be branched all together would be part of a higher layer of design.

Why refer to it as a "commit editor"? Because there are certain requirements that differ between a commit editor, an update/switch editor, and an editor used to drive a diff into the client-side merge code. I just want to concentrate on one of them, since that's quite enough to think about, before moving on to the others.

The most important thing to do next, and what I am doing now, is to write

  Ev3-to-Ev1 and Ev1-to-Ev3 converters

I think that will enable us/me to understand better how the old and new concepts fit together, and also enable us to build working code on top of existing code.
- Julian
Received on 2014-07-03 19:34:46 CEST