From: Tom G. Christensen <tgc@statsbiblioteket.dk>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:17:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-svn: fix SVN 1.1.x compatibility
Message-ID: <4974450D.4090608@statsbiblioteket.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20090119004556.GA25038@dcvr.yhbt.net>

Eric Wong wrote:
> The get_log() function in the Perl SVN API introduced the limit
> parameter in 1.2.0.  However, this got discarded in our SVN::Ra
> compatibility layer when used with SVN 1.1.x.  We now emulate
> the limit functionality in older SVN versions by preventing the
> original callback from being called if the given limit has been
> reached.  This emulation is less bandwidth efficient, but SVN
> 1.1.x is becoming rarer now.
> 
> Additionally, the --limit parameter in svn(1) uses the
> aforementioned get_log() functionality change in SVN 1.2.x.
> t9129 no longer depends on --limit to work and instead uses
> Perl to parse out the commit message.
> 
> Thanks to Tom G. Christensen for the bug report.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>

I applied this to 1.6.1 and the testsuite now passes using SVN 1.1.4 on 
RHEL 4/i386 (t9106 still fails on RHEL 4/x86_64).

-tgc