Re: is it a valid set_path report?

Dmitry Pavlenko wrote:
> set_path "" 6 infinity
> set_path "directory" 6 infinity
> set_path "directory/subdirectory" 5 infinity
> finish_report
>
> and run svn_ra_do_update3() with revision=6 to get changes of
> "directory/subdirectory" between r5 and r6.
>
>
> My question is whether such a report is valid or not.
>
>
> I've found a citation from svn_ra.h
> * This will *override* any previous set_path() calls made on parent
> * paths. @a path is relative to the URL specified in svn_ra_open4().
> but from it cannot understand if I can override parent set_path with the same
> revision number and the same depth parameter.
>
> When I tried to find out what SVN command line client does in a similar
> scenario, and it always does
>
> set_path "" 6 infinity
> set_path "directory/subdirectory" 5 infinity
> finish_report
>
> e.g. it reports a working copy in a more clever way. But I still want to
> understand whether the first report is valid. Thanks!

Hello Dmitry. In my interpretation, the documentation implies both reports are valid. APIs generally always allow a no-op of setting a value to its current value; only if that were NOT allowed then I would expect it to be explicitly documented and tested.

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- Julian