Author: brane
Date: Wed Mar 26 14:25:02 2014
New Revision: 1581860
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1581860
Log:
On the remote-only-status branch:
* BRANCH-README: New file.
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subversion/branches/remote-only-status/BRANCH-README
Added: subversion/branches/remote-only-status/BRANCH-README
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/branches/remote-only-status/BRANCH-README?rev=1581860&view=auto
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+Remote-Only Status API
+======================
+
+Subversion's "svn status --update" command compares working copy
+status with the latest state of the repository. Long-running clients,
+such as TortoiseSVN or SmartSVN, which cache working copy state, would
+benefit from a version of the svn_client_status API that compares
+repository status to the WC BASE tree, ignoring any local
+modifications. Whilst these clients could drive the svn_ra_do_status
+API directly (and do, at least in the case of SmartSVN 8.5 and later);
+however, they do not get enough information from status and/or info to
+be able to properly account for nodes omitted from sparse working
+copies, which may result in lots of extraneous data being sent from
+the server.
+
+This branch is an ongoing research into implementing a variant of the
+svn_client_status API that drives the status editor using informatino
+only about the BASE tree in wc.db, and does not touch the file system.
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