[jira] [Created] (SVN-4884) multi-wc-format: user visibility of WC version

["Julian Foad (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Julian Foad created SVN-4884:
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             Summary: multi-wc-format: user visibility of WC version
                 Key: SVN-4884
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4884
             Project: Subversion
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Daniel Shahaf


Daniel Shahaf wrote, in dev@ email "multi-wc-format review":

1. How can a user ask a working copy what range of minor versions it
supports? Cf. "Compatible With Version:" in `svnadmin info` output.

I see these:

% subversion/svn/svn info wc --show-item=wc-format
31
% subversion/svn/svn info wc --show-item=wc-format-min
31
% subversion/svn/svn info wc --show-item=wc-format-max
32
%

but:

- They emit format numbers rather than version numbers. It would be
more useful to emit version numbers, or at least to expose the
format-number-to-version-number mapping in the public API.

- They aren't documented in the release notes (only in the help output).

- wc-format-min and wc-format-max are not attributes of the working
copy but of the Subversion library doing the query. It's this way
even in the API (svn_wc_info_t::wc_format_min and
svn_wc_info_t::wc_format_max), but shouldn't we change this? "Do one
thing and do it well.". «svn info»'s one thing is to report properties
of the working copy. Information about the library's capabilities
clearly belongs in «svn --version --xml» ;-)

[«svn --version» does in fact print the library's supported version
number range already.]



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