On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 03:04:02AM +0000, svnusert...@href.com wrote: > [[[ > Contributed Feature: enable lazy sync via new export flag, > --skipfilesmatchingsize
> Discussed in part here: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2010-07/0282.shtml Hi Ann, As I've said before in the discussion you've linked to, I still think using rsync is a better solution to this problem, and I'll object adding the proposed feature to Subversion. Adding an option flag that is too specific is not a good thing. The general problem you're trying to solve is making Subversion omit certain files from an export, based on a set of criteria. Your set of criteria may be file size, the next person's criteria maybe whether the file contains source code or image data, or whatever. Each feature in Subversion's feature set should be general enough to be useful to many of its users. And it should provide added value over existing solutions, and I don't see how, in general, the proposed feature adds value over using rsync. > We tried to follow all the rules and hope that, if for some reason, > this patch is unusable, you let us know how to improve it. There is nothing wrong with the way you're approaching us about this, or with any rules not being followed. You're doing absolutely fine in that regard. But I think that the feature as proposed simply does not fit into the vision the community has for the software. And that is, besides following patch submission guide lines, a very, very important part in getting a feature submission accepted. I may be wrong, and if the majority of people here want to include the feature, fair enough. But I don't expect this to be the case. Please don't feel put off by this, and keep making contributions. Contributions keep the project alive and are always valuable, even if they do not end up in the actual product. Even as a Subversion developer, I also have made contributions that have not been accepted or which I had to revert after community discussion following a commit I had made. That is simply part of open source development. One such case happened just last week, where another developer convinced me that a feature I had added didn't add any value. See this discussion for details: http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2010-07/0429.shtml Stefan
