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Re: Creating commits with empty changesets

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:39:27 +0200

Ulrich Eckhardt wrote on Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 13:27:46 +0100:
> Am 08.11.2011 12:53, schrieb Daniel Shahaf:
> >Regarding empty revisions, even if Subversion prevents them in the UI
> >I won't be entirely surprised to discover that a program written to our
> >lower-level public APIs can create such revisions nonetheless.
>
> As you proved yourself, it can be done with the client API.

I proved that the client API allows committing revisions that make no-op
changes to >=1 files. I was asking here about revisions that touch zero
files.

> Also,
> svnadmin allows creating empty revisions during loading in order to
> preserve the revisions numbers after svndumpfilter.

Good point, that means means the svn_fs_* API allows creating empty
revisions. Thanks.
Received on 2011-11-08 13:40:12 CET

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