Stephan Witt wrote:
> > Stephan, do you still have some time to look on this? I mean
> > a) some routine to check existence of parental .svn for 1.7 SVN
> > b) in case a) succeeds external svn call to check file being under SVN
> > control
> > (a&b perhaps just as fallback to current current check routines)
> > c) perhaps RC_ for this business (enabled by default and not in UI, but as
> > a emergency help)?
> >
> > In case a) is written in general way (bool checkparentdirs(".svn"))
> > the doors for basic git support in LyX are opened (I guess one weekend
> > coding & debugging).
>
> Yes, I have some time to look on this.
>
> Would a possible solution to make the builtin check for SVN (in local
> directory) first,
> if that fails to check the version of the svn client with "svn --version
> --quiet" and
> a) cache the result and if svn 1.7 or better is found
What is the gain of a) instead of directly calling b)?
> b) use the external svn call to check the status of the files?
It would work but it implies external svn call(s) for each opened files no
matter whether the file
is under the control :-/ I'm not much happy, but you are the boss now...
Pavel
