David Crossley wrote: > Tim Williams wrote: >> >> I guess I've never investigated how forrestbot actually works, but >> this jsvn library is terrible. I can't find any documentation and all >> the useful links are broken. I was trying to find out if there was a >> "--no-auth-cache" equivalent for that svncheckout task. I wonder why >> we don't just call out to external svn commands in all places (just >> like svn status) since svn is a dependency anyway? > > That is a good question. > > It seems that the affected files are > forrestbot/core/getsrc.xml > forrestbot/core/deploy.xml > which use "svncheckout" and "svncommit". > > It is interesting to note that we already use > Ant to call the "svn" executable do to the 'svn add' > and 'svn status' operations. > > I am in favour of dropping dependencies where possible.
I think we should stop using the svncommit and svncheckout tasks since: - There's almost no documentation available for them. - They don't remove the need for executing the svn command. Maybe we could consider using [1], which is BTW released under ASL 1.1 [2]. Kind regards, Sina [1] http://subclipse.tigris.org/svnant.html [2] http://subclipse.tigris.org/licenses/svnAnt.html
