Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> writes: >> Are there any circumstances today when a node will not have an URL but >> will have a copyfrom URL? Everything seems to work if I remove the >> copyfrom stuf from convert_to_url. > > entry->url "does not exist"... today, we call a function to provide a > URL. That means we can return a URL in every possible situation, for > some semantic of "what does that URL represent?" > > In general(*), entry->url means "the repository location that the node > came from, or where it will end up after a commit". And with that > semantic, we can *almost* always provide an answer. > > The only situation that I can think of is where a switched subdir has > been rm'd so we get back svn_wc__db_status_obstructed from the wc_db > functions. If we use the parent's information, we can guess at a URL, > but (due to the switch) it is wrong. Conceivably, we could *ensure* > that enough information is left in the parent stub to properly compute > the URL. > > We can always compute "where will this end up?" regardless of rm'd > subdirs. Excluded/absent/etc nodes can be derived from the parent, as > they are never switched. > > In single-db, the above-noted obstruction is no longer possible, which > means we'll always have a URL according to the above definition.
I understand all that. My question is in the (few) cases where we don't have an URL will we have a copyfrom URL. It seems unlikely to me. -- Philip
