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Re: svn log xml order differs from non-xml version

From: G. T. Stresen-Reuter <tedmasterweb_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 22:13:19 +0100

On Sep 9, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Andy Levy wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 16:05, G. T. Stresen-Reuter
> <tedmasterweb_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sep 9, 2008, at 8:28 PM, Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
>>
>>> G. T. Stresen-Reuter wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm working on a system that deploys the contents of
>>>> repositories to
>>>> development servers. I'll be using cURL to update the servers. I
>>>> was
>>>> hoping to use svn log --xml and XSLT to create the shell scripts
>>>> required to update the servers, but I soon realized that the
>>>> output of
>>>> paths using svn log --xml does not appear to be in any order.
>>>> svn log
>>>> (without the --xml option) properly lists the order in which
>>>> files need
>>>> to be added/deleted, etc.
>>>>
>>>> This issue was reported in 2006 (but maybe not to the right place?)
>>>> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-04/0949.shtml
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, there's no answer to that email (although it
>>>> seems fairly
>>>> clearly written).
>>>>
>>>> I'm wondering if anyone knows of a workaround, if this is a bug,
>>>> or if
>>>> the order simply doesn't matter (or if I'm just an idiot and
>>>> missing
>>>> something obvious).
>>>
>>> Can you provide a specific example? Perhaps a reproduction
>>> recipe against
>>> Subversion's own repository?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>
>> Happy to oblige. Note that in the non-xml output, build.conf is
>> the second
>> line, but in the xml output, it is the fifth line. This becomes an
>> issue for
>> my specific project when updating directories: I can't add files to a
>> directory that hasn't been created yet, so the A /trunk/
>> my_directory has to
>> come before A /trunk/my_directory/some_file.txt and that does not
>> always
>> seem to be the case (unless I'm missing something or just not paying
>> attention).
>
> Given that the non-XML log output appears to be sorted alphabetically,
> and the XML output appears to be unsorted, could you have your XSLT do
> a sort on the child nodes of <paths>, thus achieving the same ordering
> you get in the non-XML log?

Absolutely! All I was missing was the confirmation that the non-XML
output had a reproducible sort order.

Thank you!!!

But just out of curiosity, does anyone know where in the source code
the XML is generated? Maybe this is something that can be
standardized and incorporated into a future version?

Ted S-R
http://tedmasterweb.com

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