Greg Stein wrote on Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 20:33:39 -0400: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Daniel Shahaf <danie...@elego.de> wrote: > > Branko Čibej wrote on Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 21:32:31 +0200: > >> On 27.06.2013 21:16, Greg Stein wrote: > >> > On IRC, Branko noted: > >> > on the subject of ev2 api, i'm wondering if add_symlink and > >> > alter_symlink should really be there. it looks like special-casing on > >> > one type of special node > >> > > >> > > >> > There is *only* one type of special node. There are no plans for any > >> > other type of special node. > >> > >> Yes, there are. And not only in my head, either. :) > >> I just haven't got around to starting a design doc. > >> > > > > And the question is: once someone invents a kind of svn:special node > > (besides "link"), how would Ev2 represent it? > > Add more APIs to Ev2. Since it is not a vtable-based API, extension is > very easy.
So if Ev2 is released in 1.9 and we invent a new svn:special kind in 1.10, you need to have a 1.10 client *and* server in order to use it. That's a #lose, sorry. The way svn:special works now means even 1.0 clients and servers can talk about any svn:special kind we might add whenever. I see no compelling reason to break that functionality.
