On 10/12/2010 06:06 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: > So typically you'd add a hasAuthor function and throw an exception from > getAuthor if there is no author info for a revision. However, in this > particular case, returning an empty string is just as good, unless you > want to make the fine distinction between a svn:author property with an > empty value (is that even allowed?) and no svn:author property on the > revision. This is no different than if you had a getProperty(name) and > did a lookup in a private map of property name/value pairs.
Not paying much attention to the larger discussion, but yes, you can set svn:author to an empty value, and you can remove the property altogether. Any bindings layer above our APIs should preserve the distinction. -- C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
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