Re: svn-fe status

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 25, 2010, 10:25 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=sij9TeY+Cv85n61xt3R6nPbkpOyKdoDMzbtaD@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100925051926.GA19804@burratino>

Heya,

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 07:19, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

> Now the features that would be most useful from fast-import become a
> bit clearer.  Since a single svn revision can make multiple changes to
> a file, the ability to read back the currently staged content for the
> current revision would be helpful, like this:

Yes, that makes sense.

>  from refs/remotes/origin/root^0
>  M 100644 :72:"trunk/README" "branches/topic/README"

Shouldn't that be 'C' for copy? Of course, this should also be guarded by a feature.

>  1. use ':<mark>:<path>' references to retrieve data from a
>    previous revision

I like this a lot better than the previous "catting the contents of a commit to find the tree to find the file hash to cat the file contents". I don't think there needs to be a colon after the mark though, I'd prefer reserving the colon character for marks and instead introduce a copy operation.

>  2. use 'cat <path>' references to retrieve data from the
>    current revision.

You'll thank yourself later if you add an (optional?) mark to cat, so that you can cat previous versions of a file too? Doesn't svn ever give you a diff against -. ... never mind! You don't need that, since you can just copy the contents you want over first! Ok, great, that works :).

> David's and Ram's discussions and patches from the last two weeks (or
> at least the part I have understood) have been very helpful.

Keep up the great work!

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier