On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 09:27:22PM +0200, Daniel Näslund wrote: > Hi! > > Why doesn't svn_ra_do_diff3() request that the repository sends copyfrom > args? The best explanation I've found is this commit message: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > r866577 | sussman | 2007-09-10 06:56:55 +0200 (mån, 10 sep 2007) | 87 lines > > Send copyfrom-args on updates *only* if the client explicitly requests them. > > This keeps the 1.5 servers backward-compatible. Because incoming > copyfrom args cause old clients to error, they should only be > requested by new clients that understand them. This means adding a > new boolean 'send_copyfrom_args' to the main libsvn_repos > editor-driver, svn_ra_do_update2(), and all four RA implementations. > Eesh! > > [.. Rest of log message omitted for brevity ..] > > I'm assuming noone saw a use case for having diff display copies back then and > since it involved passing down a lot of parameters, only svn_ra_do_updateX() > was revved. But with git diffs we have a use case for copyfrom info. How about > enable it?
Yes, let's enable it. In the same backwards-compatible fashion of course. Stefan
