Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> wrote on 11/28/2007 10:55:47 AM:
> Giulio Troccoli wrote:
> >> A real user quote: "How can I trust Subversion if it can't even
> >> consistently show status information between clients?"
> >>
> >
> > Answer: exactly because of that. The only way to know something for
sure
> > is to use Subversion not a client, IMHO.
>
> Better answer: cached status information is never reliable. If you want
> to know about the state of concurrent operations you have to ask the
> server since it is the only thing that knows. But I think the
> discussion has moved on to whether there should be an official api to
> store this unreliable information. If you expect multiple GUI clients
> to be concurrently running and always display the same info you are
> going to need a lot of synchronization and locking gunk that doesn't
> seem to belong in a core api - and if it doesn't do that, what's the
> point of adding more than you'd get with 'svn -u status >file'?
It is reliable when taken in the context of when it was gathered.
Just as you would expect your hard drive cache to be smart enough
to not use out of date information when you read file contents.
Kevin R.
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Received on Wed Nov 28 18:08:30 2007