On 8/12/14 9:31 AM, Branko Čibej wrote:
> For a start, this would require a major change in the wire protocol, where the
> server would, as a response to a successful commit, report any additional
> "magic" changes to the client. The problem with this is that it is error prone;
> the response may never arrive, for any number of reasons. Therefore, the client
> could not mark commtited items up-to-date until and unless it received the
> response. Since at least the DAV protocol is stateless, this implies all sorts
> of complications and the introduction of intermediate states in the working copy.
>
> In short: yes, it'd be hard.
Ignoring all that... There's a better reason why it won't happen.
Subversion clients before whatever version we add it to won't support it.
Which leaves those clients with stale caches. You'd have to disallow it with
older clients or just ignore the stale cache problem. I frankly do not see the
community accepting a change that ignores such a huge problem with old clients.
This is the type of change that in my opinion would require a major bump, which
is unlikely to happen and even more unlikely to happen for this.
Received on 2014-08-12 20:51:27 CEST