Hi Daniel, Daniel Shahaf writes: > Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote on Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:17:34 +0530: > > > > The dump functionality is also complete- thanks to Stefan's review and > > > > MANY others for cleaning it up. It's however hit a brick wall now > > > > because of missing headers in the RA layer. Until I (or someone else) > > > > figures out how to fix the RA layer, we can't do better than the XFail > > > > copy-and-modify test I've committed. > > > > > > Part of the diff there is lack of SHA-1 headers --- which is unavoidable > > > until editor is revved --- but part of it is a missing > > > Text-copy-source-md5. > > > Why don't you output that information --- doesn't the editor give it to > > > you? > > > > Afaik, no. I don't see Text-copy-source-* anywhere in the RA > > layer. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough? > > > > Hmm. It seems you're right. So you might have to use two RA session in > parallel... > > (and then, you might have to have the user authenticate twice?)
Hm, I also have to find out if it's allowed. The commit_editor doesn't allow it for instance. Besides, it's a very inelegant solution- I'd rather fix the RA layer than do this. > > > > - Make dumpfile v3 the de-facto standard and improve it for optimized > > > > loading/ generation. The former part was suggested by Stefan. > > > > - Integrate it into svnadmin etc as appropriate. I think there's > > > > enough work here for a mini-GSoC project? > > > > > > How would it be integrated into svnadmin? Do you want to push the logic > > > into the standard 'svnadmin dump' command? > > > > This is something I haven't given thought either. I brought it up > > because of an earlier discussion in which everyone seemed to be in > > favor of NOT having a new command. It feels like we're stuffing a lot > > of functionality into one tool though. > > > > Personally I also like having svnadmin operates only locally (so it doesn't > even link against libsvn_ra), but that was hashed out already on that > moderately-long thread a few weeks ago. Yeah. It looks like I'll have to ressurect this thread soon and reach a concrete conclusion. -- Ram
