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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name> on 2010/07/22 13:40:57 UTC

Re: svn commit: r965892 - in /subversion/trunk: notes/dump-load-format.txt subversion/include/svn_repos.h subversion/libsvn_repos/dump.c

C. Michael Pilato wrote on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:00:25 -0400:
> Now for some nit-picking.  This format:
> 
>    Header-Name: (PROPNAME) CHECKSUM
> 
> is unnecessarily complex and, I bet, will catch at least person offguard
> when their dumpstream contains a property name with a ')' character in it.
> Checksum strings have a constant length and a fixed character set, so you
> can simply do:
> 
>    Header-Name: CHECKSUM PROPNAME
> 
> (which also has the nice property of looking similar to the output of
> 'md5sum' and 'sha1sum').
> 

Are parentheses valid in property names?  (svn_prop_name_is_valid() doesn't allow them.)

Daniel
(that's the first thing I did when I saw the commit: make sure the (propname)
syntax would be unambiguously parsable)

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> C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net>
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Re: svn commit: r965892 - in /subversion/trunk: notes/dump-load-format.txt subversion/include/svn_repos.h subversion/libsvn_repos/dump.c

Posted by "C. Michael Pilato" <cm...@collab.net>.
On 07/22/2010 09:40 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> C. Michael Pilato wrote on Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:00:25 -0400:
>> Now for some nit-picking.  This format:
>>
>>    Header-Name: (PROPNAME) CHECKSUM
>>
>> is unnecessarily complex and, I bet, will catch at least person offguard
>> when their dumpstream contains a property name with a ')' character in it.
>> Checksum strings have a constant length and a fixed character set, so you
>> can simply do:
>>
>>    Header-Name: CHECKSUM PROPNAME
>>
>> (which also has the nice property of looking similar to the output of
>> 'md5sum' and 'sha1sum').
>>
> 
> Are parentheses valid in property names?  (svn_prop_name_is_valid() doesn't allow them.)

Ah!  Okay.  Then I reduce my nitpicking back to mere claims of unnecessary
complexity.  :-)

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C. Michael Pilato <cm...@collab.net>
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