Re: About svn client

On Mar 6, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Andy Levy wrote:
> If all you want is to understand the protocol being used, read the source code.
>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/ (libsvn_ra_*)
>
> Why spend time trying to reverse-engineer it when the source is freely
> available?

Reading the source to figure out how a protocol works still sounds like reverse engineering to me--reading source describes an *implementation* of the protocol, not the protocol itself. What's needed is a specification document of some sort (e.g., something in the style of an RFC).

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