Hi,

Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> But I wonder if, while here, we could go further and obtain
> the "expected old property value" from the RA layer (and
> pass it to the pre-hook).  (This probably means revving
> svn_ra_change_rev_prop() the same way svn_fs_change_rev_prop()
> was revved.)  That will allow "svn propset k v
> --if-old-value-is=vprime" to work...

That would also fix the known race condition in svnsync.
Svnsync locks the remote repository by creating a revprop.
We really want that to be an atomic "create revprop if not
exist" operation, which would be possible with this new API.
The current implementation does a non-atomic test-then-set,
which is racy.

Kind regards,

Jon


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