Am 08.03.2012 um 11:41 schrieb Abdelrazak Younes: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Pavel Sanda <sa...@lyx.org> wrote: >> Stephan Witt wrote: >>> I don't like hard-coding the knowledge how subversion developers organize >>> their meta-data. >> >> More thoughts - what about this proposal: >> 1. We completely kill parsing of 1.6 metadata in .svn. >> 2. If possible than write common routine for both 1.6/1.7 (I assume the >> output of "svn --xml info" is consistent) >> (that also means no detecting and caching for 1.7 being a special case) >> 3. The only knowledge left about svn metadata would be checking for .svn in >> parental directories >> (which we later join with test for .git). This would avoid superfluous >> execution of binaries. >> >> What do you think? > > I am not Stephan but I think you should use libsvn. This library seems > to have a stable API and works with all version of svn since 1.x
Yes, this is the alternative. But I'd like to make the current approach (external svn client) working again. I'm really not sure what happens to SVN support on Windows if we replace the external client thing with libsvn. Stephan
