On Tuesday 28 June 2011 03:01 PM, Noorul Islam K M wrote:
[email protected] writes:
Author: arwin
Date: Tue Jun 28 08:43:40 2011
New Revision: 1140482
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1140482&view=rev
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Added a branch readme.
* BRANCH-README : New file.
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subversion/branches/svn-bisect/BRANCH-README
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+This branch exists for the implementation of the svn bisect command.
+It is maintained as a reintegrate-able branch with regular catch-up
+merges from trunk.
+
+PURPOSE
+=======
+
+For years, subversion users have used third-party scripts to do what
+should rightfully be a part of subversion itself. This branch aims
+to implement bisect functionality and make it available via the
+public API.
+
+
+SPEC
+====
+
+svn bisect start [-rN[:M]]
+
When we discussed you had a concern that above syntax is different from
the normal svn sub command syntax. Is this finalized?
I wouldn't say it's finalized.. I simply wrote down a spec as a rough draft.
I'm sure the community will have some ideas about this. (Like implementing
a sub-subcommand interface of some sort.)
+Initialize the bisection state.
+If a state already exists, clean it up and create a fresh one.
+If a revision range is specified, limit bisection to this range.
+If a single revision is specified, bisect from that revision to HEAD.
+If no revision is specified, bisect from revision 1 to HEAD.
Does this mean that N will be set a bad and M will be good revision
initially?
That's correct.. except, N will be set as good and M will be set as bad..
i.e the lower revision is always the good revision. A later (higher)
revision
introduces the bad behaviour and we use bisect to pick this out.
Thanks and Regards
Noorul
