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List:       subclipse-users
Subject:    RE:   Re: Ckeckout and repository location
From:       "Ian Brockbank" <Ian.Brockbank () wolfsonmicro ! com>
Date:       2005-04-19 9:25:16
Message-ID: 1AB5453BFBEF07449D98BA9B37980C8F04134E () orlando ! wolfsonmicro ! main
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Hi Mark,

> It isn't critical, but it works better when you have it.  For example,
say
> you want to see the diff or log of a specific rev in the repository.
You
> can specify the complete URL to a specific path, but if it turns out
that
> path was not part of that revision, or does not exist at HEAD, you
will
> get an error.  A CLI user would just type the root URL because that is
all
> you need if you are specifying a specific revision.  We try to do the
> same.  It just helps avoid problems that the GUI can get you into.
There
> are a few cases where TSVN suffers the same problem.  I think that
they
> now have a low-level API they can use to get the repository root (I
know I
> have seen them ask for it.)  The JavaHL API only makes available a
very
> small and specific subset of the Subversion API.  If we want to use a
new
> feature we have to ask for it, wait for it to be added to JavaHL (or
add
> it ourselves) but then also wait for it to make its way to a release
of
> Subversion.  In some cases, it is easier to solve the problem other
ways.

FWIW, what I did in svncopy.pl was to break down the path then build it
up
level by level, trying to access each level, until I stopped getting an
error.  This allowed me to work out the root for myself.

For example, given

http://subversion/svn/repos/trunk/proj1/core/src/wibble.c

I run through the following steps:

svn log -r HEAD http://subversion/	<== FAILS
svn log -r HEAD http://subversion/svn/	<== FAILS
svn log -r HEAD http://subversion/svn/repos/	<== Succeeds.

>From this I conclude the repository root is http://subversion/svn/repos/

Cheers,

Ian Brockbank
Applications Software Team Leader
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