Re: initial thoughts on issue #3818: fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-28 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 15:16, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 08:52:18PM +0100, Bert Huijben wrote: >> I think just seeing every node below a workingcopy as a node in the parent >> working copy will make things harder instead of simpler. So I would suggest >> moving the redefinin

Re: initial thoughts on issue #3818: fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-24 Thread Branko Čibej
On 24.02.2011 11:45, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > - Maybe intra-repos externals would benifit from a new name, e.g. > "internals" ;-)? Symbolic links. :) Except that the name is already taken. -- Brane

Re: initial thoughts on issue #3818: fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-24 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Julian Foad wrote: >> (I've appended the issue subject to the subject line.) >> >> Stefan Sperling wrote: >>> I filed a new issue today (issue #3818, "fix

Re: initial thoughts on issue #3818: fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-23 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 08:52:18PM +0100, Bert Huijben wrote: > I think just seeing every node below a workingcopy as a node in the parent > working copy will make things harder instead of simpler. So I would suggest > moving the redefining of normal externals to 1.8. (But I still think we have > t

RE: initial thoughts on issue #3818: fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-23 Thread Bert Huijben
> -Original Message- > From: Hyrum K Wright [mailto:hy...@hyrumwright.org] > Sent: woensdag 23 februari 2011 19:47 > To: Julian Foad; b...@ted.stsp.name; Hyrum K Wright; > dev@subversion.apache.org > Cc: Stefan Sperling > Subject: Re: initial thoughts on issue #

Re: initial thoughts on issue #3818: fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-23 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:46:44PM -0600, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > > We need to preserve 1.6 semantics of how operations affect externals. > > Why? People have been wanting to commit across externals and working > copies for a *long* time

Re: initial thoughts on issue #3818: fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-23 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:13:21PM +, Julian Foad wrote: > We need a handle that we can pass around that references the whole > nesting of WCs (where "WC" is defined as the scope of a single wcroot). > That could be a new thing that we can invent, but I wonder if instead it > would be reasonabl

Re: initial thoughts on issue #3818: fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-23 Thread Hyrum K Wright
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:26:52PM +, Julian Foad wrote: >> Hyrum K Wright wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Julian Foad >> > wrote: >> > > Stefan Sperling wrote: >> > >>  So, ideally, we should decouple the >> > >> concep

Re: initial thoughts on issue #3818: fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-23 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:26:52PM +, Julian Foad wrote: > Hyrum K Wright wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Julian Foad > > wrote: > > > Stefan Sperling wrote: > > >> So, ideally, we should decouple the > > >> concept of a wcroot from the path. We could tie it to a wc_id instead. >

Re: initial thoughts on issue #3818: fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-23 Thread Julian Foad
Hyrum K Wright wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Julian Foad wrote: > > Stefan Sperling wrote: > >> So, ideally, we should decouple the > >> concept of a wcroot from the path. We could tie it to a wc_id instead. > >> This would allow us to use a single wc.db to manage several wcroots, > >

Re: initial thoughts on issue #3818: fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-23 Thread Julian Foad
On Wed, 2011-02-23, Julian Foad wrote: > Stefan Sperling wrote: > > (svn:externals ^/branches/foo baz) > > | > > .../foo/bar/baz > > owcroot1 > > owcroot2 > > > > The ambiguity arises because the local_abspath of wcroot2 is also > > a local relpath

Re: initial thoughts on issue #3818: fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-23 Thread Hyrum K Wright
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Julian Foad wrote: > (I've appended the issue subject to the subject line.) > > Stefan Sperling wrote: >> I filed a new issue today (issue #3818, "fix handling of externals in >> wc-ng" http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_b

Re: initial thoughts on issue #3818: fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-23 Thread Julian Foad
(I've appended the issue subject to the subject line.) Stefan Sperling wrote: > I filed a new issue today (issue #3818, "fix handling of externals in > wc-ng" http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3818). > > I had a brief chat with sbutler at the elego

Re: [Issue 3818] fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-23 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 07:16:24AM -0600, Hyrum K Wright wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:10 AM, wrote: > > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3818 > > > > > > > > User stsp changed the following: > > > >                What    |Old value                 |New value > >

Re: [Issue 3818] fix handling of externals in wc-ng

2011-02-23 Thread Hyrum K Wright
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:10 AM, wrote: > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3818 > > > > User stsp changed the following: > >                What    |Old value                 |New value > >     Iss