On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:09 AM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Some of the code needs access to a single file in SVN, e.g. > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/public/trunk/content/podlings.xml > > AFAIK there are no other items needed in the same part of SVN. > > Yet one has to checkout the parent directory and keep it updated. > > This is a nuisance for testing purposes. > > For SVN files that don't need authentication, it is easy enough to > fetch the file using HTTP(S) and cache it locally. For subsequent > requests, the cache date can be used in an If-Modified request. > The last checked date can also be saved to avoid checking the file too often. > > This technique has been used in reporter.a.o for checking the chair > index in foundation/index.mdtext: > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/reporter.apache.org/trunk/scripts/parsepmcs.py > > Might be worth cosidering re-implementing the python caching code used there.
As very few of the resources accessed by whimsy are public, that would only solve a small part of the problem. Given that the resources needed are declared in https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/repository.yml, perhaps a more complete solution would be to use the 'svn:update' task defined in https://github.com/apache/whimsy/blob/master/Rakefile#L66 ? At the moment, that task is assuming that you do *NOT* override :svn: in your .whimsy config file. Perhaps it should handle that case? - Sam Ruby
