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Re: svnmover simulates a WC

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 22:24:19 +0100

Julian Foad wrote:
> On the 'move-tracking-2' branch, 'svnmover' now simulates a WC, [...]

danielsh commented on IRC [1]:
> svnmover in-memory wc will allow playing with cyclic moves? (cf comment above
> simple_moves_within_a_branch()) That may not be a major use-case but certainly
> a good torture test for the interfaces

Yes, absolutely!

Simple case: swap the names of two directories 'A' and 'B':

[[[
$ svnmover --ui=paths -U file://$PWD/repo
svnmover> mkdir A mkdir A/A mkdir B mkdir B/B commit
A A
A A/A
A B
A B/B
Committed r1:
   --- diff branch B0 at /
   A A
   A A/A
   A B
   A B/B
svnmover> mv A tmp mv B A mv tmp B
V tmp (from A)
V A (from B)
V B (from tmp)
svnmover> status
--- diff branch B0 at /
M r A (renamed from .../B)
M r B (renamed from .../A)
svnmover> commit
Committed r2:
   --- diff branch B0 at /
   M r A (renamed from .../B)
   M r B (renamed from .../A)
svnmover> ls .
    .
    A
    A/B
    B
    B/A
]]]

Now what shall we do with that cyclic-move commit? Merge it somewhere, perhaps?

[[[
# First we'll make a branch of the initial state we had in rev 1
svnmover> branch ._at_1 br1 commit
A+ br1 (branch B5)
Committed r3:
   --- diff branch B0 at /
   A br1 (branch B5)
   --- added branch B5 at /br1
svnmover> ls br1
    .
    A
    A/A
    B
    B/B
svnmover> ls .
    .
    A
    A/B
    B
    B/A
    br1 (branch B5)

# Now we'll make some moves in branch br1
svnmover> mkdir br1/D mv br1/A br1/D/A mv br1/B br1/D/B ls br1 commit

# Now we'll merge that cyclic move committed in r2, onto the branch br1
svnmover> merge ._at_2 br1 .@1
merging into branch B5
M/V e1 B
M/V e3 A
merging into branch B5 -- finished

# Perfect!
svnmover> ls br1
    .
    D
    D/A
    D/A/B
    D/B
    D/B/A
]]]

(In trying a recipe similar to the above, I discovered a missing
conflict detection, and fixed it in r1683425, so thanks for that!)

> Speaking of which, I wonder how the branch reacts to histories that contain an
> instance of 'svnmucc -U... rm foo cp head foo foo'. (do the various APIs see that
> as a move, for example)

The move-tracking-2 branch does not (yet) support migrating history
from a non-move-tracking repository, and the answer to this will
depend on how we choose to do that. (FWIW, the 'svnmover cp' command
creates a new element, currently with no connection to the source
element.)

Further thoughts, experimental results?

- Julian

[1] http://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/svn-dev?date=2015-06-03#l155
Received on 2015-06-03 23:24:57 CEST

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