First of all, I find it a bit weird that there is no easy way to recover the real node kind (not the one in subversion but in the system's FS) from svn_client_status6(). Although it is present in the WC API (svn_wc_status3_t->actual_kind), it isn't in the client equivalent. There is only a hacky way to use svn_client_status_t->backwards_compatibility_baton which is a void* that actually describes a svn_wc_status3_t so one could use the field from it (if they really know what they're doing).
subversion/include/svn_wc.h:svn_wc_status3_t: [[[ /** The actual kind of the node in the working copy. May differ from * @a kind on obstructions, deletes, etc. #svn_node_unknown if unavailable. * * @since New in 1.9 */ svn_node_kind_t actual_kind; ]]] I personally don't see a real reason to not have it so if nobody objects I'd just add it there. There is also an idea that I think we might consider to include last modified time (actual_mtime) into the status structure of both WC and client. We already have this information as an svn_io_dirent2_t when the status is assembled in libsvn_wc/status.c so it doesn't cost us anything to do and could potentially give users more idea about a node. Thoughts? -- Timofei Zhakov
