Re: I, too, miss tags.

On Sunday 26 February 2006 10:37, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:

> > As a prototype, a wrapper script would do. A good thing about a wrapper
> > script is that it does not need any change in Subversion itself. Also,
> > one could continue to use the usual svn client, in cases one does not
> > need labels (like everyday commits and updates). If there are no
> > intrinsic difficulties with the concept of labels, maybe some day it
> > makes its way to the svn itself... ;).
>
> I've experimented with such a script using revision properties.

Could I (we) have a look at it?

> The problem
> here is that subversion does not support searching for a property, so the
> script has to do the search. Unfortunately it needs about .5 to 2 seconds
> for each revision on a remote repository - doing that eg. on the KDE
> repository (currently at 513726) this would need about 3-12 days(!!) to
> search a tag.

Hmmm. What if we store a whole list of labels and corresponding revision
numbers in some property, say "svn:labels", of the repository root?
(Repository property would be preferable, but AFAIK Subversion does not have
them at the moment).

Since all labels would be stored in one property, a label per line, listing
and searching would be fast and efficient.

One could also easily create labels for sibdirectories, if one chose so :)

> A "svn propfind"(*) and "svn propgetall"(**) would help tremendously! If
> those commands were available the user could invent as many tag- and
> label-styles as he/she pleases and noone would need to implement something
> complicated.
>
> (*)list all revisions that have a property

This would be fast and only require a working copy.

> (**)dump all instances of the property

This would become unnecessary since the latest set of labels would be always
stored in HEAD revision's property.

Seems like doable, no?

Regards,
Saulius

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