Philip Martin wrote on Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:32:43 +0000: > The dumpfile order is more interesting. Although we don't specify the > dumpfile order until now it has been repeatable, at least when using the > same executable/libraries. I can see that this repeatability is useful > to an administrator. Rather than fixing the testsuite to ignore > dumpfile order changes perhaps we should remove the random behaviour and > continue to provide repeatable dumpfiles? This would involve using > apr_hash_make_custom rather than apr_hash_make. I don't know whether
Instead of apr_hash_make_custom(), couldn't we dump entries in directory order instead? That makes the order a function of the repository mirror dumped, rather than of the software version used. For FSFS dirs are stored in an svn_hash_write2() hash; for BDB they are stored in a skel of node-rev skels; both of these structures are naturally ordered, though in the former case we discard the order when we parse the rep. > it's possible to do that just for dump, or whether it would affect other > operations. > > -- > uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy > http://www.uberSVN.com
