> -----Original Message-----
> From: hy...@hyrumwright.org [mailto:hy...@hyrumwright.org] On Behalf Of
> Hyrum K. Wright
> Sent: donderdag 28 oktober 2010 6:22
> To: Bert Huijben
> Cc: Subversion Development
> Subject: Re: wc-ng: Storing conflict information on the victim: trials
> and pitfalls
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Bert Huijben <b...@qqmail.nl> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: hy...@hyrumwright.org [mailto:hy...@hyrumwright.org] On Behalf
> Of
> >> Hyrum K. Wright
> >> Sent: dinsdag 26 oktober 2010 23:49
> >> To: Subversion Development
> >> Subject: wc-ng: Storing conflict information on the victim: trials
> and
> >> pitfalls
> >>
> >> This mail is part 2 in a series regarding the conflict information
> >> storage (see [1] for part 1).
> >>
> >> The current Plan (as denoted in both wc-metadata.sql and the
> >> conflict-storage notes) is to store conflict information in the
> ACTUAL
> >> node. This works fine (and is currently being done on trunk), but
> >> seems to break an assumed invariant that every node will also have
> an
> >> entry in NODES. The docs in wc-metadata.sql state that "A NODES row
> >> must exist if this node exists, but an ACTUAL_NODE row can exist on
> >> its own if it is just recording info on a non-present node - a tree
> >> conflict or a changelist, for example." So in theory we allow
> ACTAUL
> >> nodes with conflict info without a NODE entry, but not in practice.
> >>
> >> One of the places this bites us is when retrieving children. Child
> >> nodes which are victims of a conflict should be returned as part of
> >> the child list APIs (which ultimately call
> >> libsvn_wc/wc_db.c:gather_children()). Those APIs currently only
> look
> >> in NODES to find children, without tacking on the conflict victims
> >> embedded in ACTUAL.tree_conflict_data. In crafting a patch to do
> >> this, I run into various places in wc_db where a NODE is assumed if
> an
> >> ACTUAL node exists.
> >>
> >> For instance, I'd like to rewrite
> >> libsvn_client/commit_util.c:bail_on_tree_conflicted_children() so
> that
> >> it iterates over the children of the directory in question, rather
> >> than use the (soon-to-disappear) "give me all the tree conflict
> >> children on this node" API. However, if conflict victims aren't
> >> returned as part of gather_children(), that API has no way of
> knowing
> >> about those children who exist only as conflict victims. I believe
> >> there are other reasons to include conflicted children in the child
> >> lists as well.
> >
> > In the current code we have a wc_db api to retrieve 'all conflicted
> > children' of a node, which can be used for this specific use case.
>
> This API only exists because it is an artifact of the implementation.
> And the implementation is only an artifact of limitations in wc-1.
> Currently, all tree conflict information is stored on the parent,
> since in some scenarios in wc-1, there would be no entries file in
> which to store conflict information. This model goes against what I
> feel is one of the great benefits of wc-ng, and is something I'm
> working to change (as part of the updated conflict store).
>
> All that being said, I don't think that the current "get all
> conflicted children" API is a very good one to continue supporting,
> since the same information could conceivably be achieved in other
> ways. It's also worth asking "why do we need this API to begin with?"
> Though I know the immediate answer, I wonder if there is a
> higher-level issue which could be dealt with to remove this
> dependency.
>
> > It's also completely impossible to create a svn_wc_entry_t for a node
> in
> > this state, so making it a 'proper node' will require some work in
> more than
> > a few places.
>
> Then just don't. For backward compat, pretend such a node doesn't
> exist, and continue pretending the conflict information is stored on
> the parent.
A svn_wc__db_status_not_present node *does* exist (in a different revision),
so if you want to see the difference (even if it is just for backwards
compatibility) you need a new status for an unversioned node that is
recorded in wc.db.
When you perform a merge or patch that introduces a delete-delete tree
conflict, you don't know if the node ever existed (or if it maybe *does*
exist in a specific revision) so you can't record a
svn_wc__db_status_not_present status for the node.
Bert
>
> >> In the end, I'm not really sure what the best solution is, or how to
> >> get there. I've thought about the possibility of having a NODE with
> >> op_depth=-1 for nodes who only have an ACTUAL node, if only to
> satisfy
> >> the "ACTUAL must have NODE" invariant. Any other comments or
> thought
> >> are welcome.
> >
> > I would suggest dropping the 'ACTUAL must have NODE' invariant and
> keeping
> > the rest of the wc_db api as close to the current state as possible.
> >
> > Making delete-delete tree conflicts proper nodes, will also make
> simple
> > users of svn_wc__db_read_info(), as svn_wc_read_kind() return some
> node kind
> > for this node. (How would we handle that?)
> >
> > I think svn_wc__db_read_info() should just return
> SVN_ERR_WC_PATH_NOT_FOUND
> > on these nodes.
> > (Note that we can fix the delete-delete tree conflicts caused by
> switching
> > and updating, by just keeping a not-present NODE. But this doesn't
> work for
> > delete-delete tree conflicts introduced by merging, as we can only
> introduce
> > these not-present markers in BASE)
>
> Dunno; need to think about these a bit more.
>
> -Hyrum
