wow

[Karl Fogel <kf...@collab.net>]

This message has no other purpose than to praise Greg Stein for having
made the networking layer work, and not only work, but work with other
Subversion libraries that themselves are fresh out of the oven this
week (read: unstable).

Not that there isn't still a lot to be done, but when I watched Ben
run a checkout *over the network* this morning, the hairs on the back
of my neck raised ... and then shot out in all directions.

Of course it's true that Subversion's progress is the work of many
people, but lately a lot of those people are Greg Stein.

Thanks, Greg!,
-K

Re: wow

[cm...@collab.net]

Karl Fogel <kf...@collab.net> writes:

> Yeah, I was pretty amazed by that too!
> 
> (For those who don't start every morning by reading the ChangeLog,
> both svn_fs_delta_dirs() and it's truly gargantuan test suite are Mike
> Pilato's baby.)

In all fairness, the suite of functions in delta.c are really JimB's
babies, I merely reared their orphaned selves in a loving home. :-)

Re: wow

[Karl Fogel <kf...@collab.net>]

Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@newton.ch.collab.net> writes:
> As long as we're talking about "wow", try this:
> 
>    * commit a few times to a repository (do some adds, deletes, etc.)
>    * checkout a new working copy (which will be at the latest revision)
>    * type "svn up -r 1"
>             
>           ... and watch your working copy morph back into the
>           original, pristine greek tree.
> 
> svn_fs_delta_dirs is an incredible function.  Successfully updating to
> an old revision goes in my I-Can't-Believe-That-Actually-Works
> category!  :)

Yeah, I was pretty amazed by that too!

(For those who don't start every morning by reading the ChangeLog,
both svn_fs_delta_dirs() and it's truly gargantuan test suite are Mike
Pilato's baby.)

Re: wow

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@newton.ch.collab.net>]

Greg Stein <gs...@lyra.org> writes:
 
> Yes, it took a while for it to sink in, even here. I think it wasn't until
> the day after I got it working that I realized "hey... this means we can
> create an anonymous checkout repository *today*. bite *that* CVS!!"

As long as we're talking about "wow", try this:

   * commit a few times to a repository (do some adds, deletes, etc.)
   * checkout a new working copy (which will be at the latest revision)
   * type "svn up -r 1"
            
          ... and watch your working copy morph back into the
          original, pristine greek tree.

svn_fs_delta_dirs is an incredible function.  Successfully updating to
an old revision goes in my I-Can't-Believe-That-Actually-Works
category!  :)

Re: wow

[Greg Stein <gs...@lyra.org>]

*blush*  Thanks.

Yes, it took a while for it to sink in, even here. I think it wasn't until
the day after I got it working that I realized "hey... this means we can
create an anonymous checkout repository *today*. bite *that* CVS!!"

Kinda strange to realize that we are very close to basic CVS replacement
now...

But thanks for the kind words, and I also have to acknowledge others: I'm
just glueing pieces together.

Cheers,
-g

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 06:11:42PM -0600, Karl Fogel wrote:
> This message has no other purpose than to praise Greg Stein for having
> made the networking layer work, and not only work, but work with other
> Subversion libraries that themselves are fresh out of the oven this
> week (read: unstable).
> 
> Not that there isn't still a lot to be done, but when I watched Ben
> run a checkout *over the network* this morning, the hairs on the back
> of my neck raised ... and then shot out in all directions.
> 
> Of course it's true that Subversion's progress is the work of many
> people, but lately a lot of those people are Greg Stein.
> 
> Thanks, Greg!,
> -K

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/