Dmitry Pavlenko wrote: > set_path "" 6 infinity > set_path "directory" 6 infinity > set_path "directory/subdirectory" 5 infinity > finish_report > > and run svn_ra_do_update3() with revision=6 to get changes of > "directory/subdirectory" between r5 and r6. > > > My question is whether such a report is valid or not. > > > I've found a citation from svn_ra.h > * This will *override* any previous set_path() calls made on parent > * paths. @a path is relative to the URL specified in svn_ra_open4(). > but from it cannot understand if I can override parent set_path with the same > revision number and the same depth parameter. > > When I tried to find out what SVN command line client does in a similar > scenario, and it always does > > set_path "" 6 infinity > set_path "directory/subdirectory" 5 infinity > finish_report > > e.g. it reports a working copy in a more clever way. But I still want to > understand whether the first report is valid. Thanks!
Hello Dmitry. In my interpretation, the documentation implies both reports are valid. APIs generally always allow a no-op of setting a value to its current value; only if that were NOT allowed then I would expect it to be explicitly documented and tested. -- - Julian
