[jira] [Commented] (SVN-4786) Create a WC working-mods editor

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

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Julian Foad commented on SVN-4786:
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The new API svn_client__wc_editor() is in place.

The difficult part is handling the 'copy file' and especially 'copy directory' methods, as the WC requires to fetch the bases of the copied things but doesn't have a clean way to receive them.

The new API svn_client__repos_to_wc_copy()is beginning to encapsulate this 'copy' functionality. Presently it inherits the existing ugly 'perform a checkout' implementation when copying a directory.

 

> Create a WC working-mods editor
> -------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SVN-4786
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4786
>             Project: Subversion
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: libsvn_client
>            Reporter: Julian Foad
>            Assignee: Julian Foad
>            Priority: Major
>
> Create a delta-editor that applies working modifications to the WC.
> It will be useful for implementing things such as shelving, which in principle (and, with this in place, more easily in practice) are just copying a set of modifications from WC to shelf and from shelf to WC.
> Use it to implement the existing client modifications ('svn add', 'svn copy', 'svn rm', etc.). Why? (1) ensure it works for and fully supports those cases; (2) ensure those cases are handled consistently (it will probably reveal inconsistencies in the old implementation).
> See dev@ thread "Crazy idea: changes in WC should share an API with changes in repository", from Julian Foad, 2018-11-09.



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