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

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

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Julian Foad edited comment on SVN-4884 at 2/24/22, 8:21 PM:
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[~danielsh] How is that for you now? Sufficient?


was (Author: julianfoad):
@danielsh How is that for you now? Sufficient?

> 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
>            Priority: Major
>
> 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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