RE: New SHA1 property for nodes returned 'svn ls --xml' invocations.

If you are using dav autoversioning, then why do you want to obtain the sha using 'svn’.

You should be able to obtain the sha using a PROPFIND request against the server.

We use that checksum from there to avoid downloading the same file multiple times in our streamlined v2 http protocol.

Bert

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From: Paul Hammant
Sent: dinsdag 11 oktober 2016 14:09
To: Subversion Development
Subject: Re: New SHA1 property for nodes returned 'svn ls --xml' invocations.

Considering ..

     svn info --xml https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/mod_dav_svn/mod_dav_svn.c

I would hope for a <sha1> element at root level:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<info>
<entry
   path="mod_dav_svn.c"
   revision="1764226"
   kind="file">
<url>https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/mod_dav_svn/mod_dav_svn.c</url>
<relative-url>^/subversion/trunk/subversion/mod_dav_svn/mod_dav_svn.c</relative-url>
<repository>
<root>https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf</root>
<uuid>13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68</uuid>
</repository>
<commit
   revision="1723715">
<content-sha1>3bc64b30547e9a0448feba6c6af48447dff2b980<content-sha1>
<author>ivan</author>
<date>2016-01-08T12:28:35.243550Z</date>
</commit>
</entry>
</info>

Considering ..

svn ls --xml https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/mod_dav_svn/

Similarly resulting in the insertion of <sha1>:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<lists>
<list
   path="https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/mod_dav_svn">

...

<entry
   kind="file">
<name>mod_dav_svn.c</name>
<size>42444</size>
<commit
   revision="1723715">
<content-sha1>3bc64b30547e9a0448feba6c6af48447dff2b980<content-sha1>
<author>ivan</author>
<date>2016-01-08T12:28:35.243550Z</date>
</commit>
</entry>

...

</list>
</lists>

svn-ls doesn't have and entry for "." of course. It's parent has that node, and svn-ls works on directories just fine.

For the entry of directory that contains mod_dav_svn.c, I'd hope for the SHA1 to be a function of the SHA1s of the files within. That's Merkle-tree style - a super important feature generally as well as specifically to my use-case.

For my use-case to work, I need to have a reasonable chance of recalculating the SHA1 on the client file system without access to the remote repo, or the presence of a .svn directory. That's why I'm calling the element content-sha1. There could be a sibling element complete-sha1 which is the content-sha1 and whatever properties should be included too. I would not use that element, but properties were mentioned before.

I don't have an opinion about symlinks, of experience of them with Svn. I'm unfamilar with the hat-syntax wc-centric use of svn-ls. Therefore I don't know what to say about it. 

I've read the ?kw=1 section of the release notes. My use case would not need keyword replacement. In fact it would need it to be off.

Something about something Greek in https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tree/readme ? - I'm lost and need further guidance as to reading materials, please.

Regards,

- Paul

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 2:40 AM, Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_apache.org> wrote:
Paul Hammant wrote on Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 22:23:25 -0400:
> In that page, there is a mention of 'ModMimeUsePathInfo' that can add
> properties transparently. One like it could optionally add a sha1 as a
> property and that be transient like svn:log, svn:date and svn:author.
>

Please don't worry about implementation details at this stage.  Adding
a per-file attribute is easy.  (It won't be like svn:log, however,
because that is a revprop, as opposed to a nodeprop.)

The real question is, what information you are asking to be provided.
Given the standard Greek tree (see subversion/tests/README), what would
be the outputs of «svn ls --xml ^/iota» and «svn ls --xml ^/A/»?

Are you asking for information to be provided for plain files?  For
symlinks?  For directories?  What is the value of the new attribute in
each of those cases?  If it's a checksum, is it the repository-normal
version or the keywords-expanded version (like ?kw=1 in mod_dav_svn, see
1.8 release notes)?

Don't worry about how the information would be encoded on the wire; just
about what information you would like to have on the client.

Cheers,

Daniel

> Re the commands svn-ls and svn-info. They have an --xml flag already, and
> it would be cool if there was a way of adding select properties to that.
> Note that --xml and --show-item fight each other presently (and are
> singular).
Received on 2016-10-12 09:29:35 CEST