Calling a coded solution a "giant waste of time and energy" is highly uncivilized at the ASF, please let's not paper over that. The "solution" I have in mind for update and checkout support is already live on svn.apache.org, all I need is some sensible optional support from the client. Why this involves knuckle-dragging is beyond me. Please do me a favor and test out the code I wrote before insulting me further- thx.
>________________________________ > From: Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> >To: Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> >Cc: Branko Čibej <br...@wandisco.com>; "dev@subversion.apache.org" ><dev@subversion.apache.org> >Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 2:32 PM >Subject: Re: Coniguring 301/302 redirects to track an fspath rename > >On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> It was civil until CMike got on his >> high horse- you need to police yourselves >> a bit better before you start accusing >> outsiders of misbehavior- that's how civility >> starts degrading in a project. > >Woah, there must be some different wavelengths in this conversation. > >I didn't see any high horse in CMike's response. I found his response >exactly to the point (pointing out that 'relocate' is the wrong action >here, and that there is a need for a 'switch' (or for 'update' >following moves of the working copy root, which is another way of >putting it), and that's not a feature we currently have). > >Or maybe you're referring to his mention of "chatter in this thread" >(which was, frankly, quite true, because of the sheer amount of posts >-- but I wouldn't take that as offensive), or of "a giant waste of >time and energy" (which sadly seems to be also true, however bad that >sounds). Nothing uncivil AFAICS. > >> The fact is that a robust solution involves >> coding this up as part of the generic exception >> handling mechanics for whatever svn ops can deal >> with 301s. What's currently in 1.7 that we're >> pretending automates the redirect problem is inadequate >> for any serious svn http server administrator trying >> to track moves. This is not an idle question- >> Daniel actually tried putting a Redirect block >> in for the openejb -> tomee rename and all it wound >> up doing is destroying any attempts to crawl >> the project's pre-move history. We had to back >> out the change just to let our git-svn mirror >> pick up the new tomee location and DTRT with the >> history. > >Sure, it's a genuine feature request (though you're the first one >bringing this up AFAIK), but it's simply not a feature of svn at the >moment. Please allow for some discussion (which includes pointing out >that this might not be as simple as you think it is), before accusing >some of as of being dicks. > >And, now that we arrived at the conclusion that this has nothing to do >with the 1.7 feature of "automatic relocate on redirect": no this is >not a feature we ostensibly support, this is something quite >different. > >-- >Johan > > >
