Subversion Design Contribution Question

2017-11-01 Thread Daniel J. Lacks, PhD
Hello, I recently signed up to the Apache Wiki for Subversion as DanielLacks, though I have been using SVN for years. I am interested in the design topic for SavePoints. I was wondering if anyone considered server-side stashes instead of client-side? The stash would work similar to a commit ex

Re: Subversion Design Contribution Question

2017-11-01 Thread Paul Hammant
I'm also interested in standardized server-side handling of such things for a different reason to the one you state - code reviews. Well outside the purview of vanilla Subversion for sure, but a feature that the portal vendors have or are coding themselves. I've a love of Trunk-Based Development an

Server-side SavePoints [was: Subversion Design Contribution Question]

2017-11-01 Thread Julian Foad
Hello Daniel. Thanks for your interest in discussing this. Emailing this list is indeed the right way to do so. Having answered that meta question, I am changing the email Subject to reflect the substantive topic. Daniel J. Lacks, PhD wrote: I am interested in the design topic for SavePoints

Shelving: beyond text changes

2017-11-01 Thread Julian Foad
Shelving v1 (as in what I have done so far) supports text changes only. == What next? == Several possible directions: * Missing Support in Shelving (binary files, copies/moves, dirs) * Checkpointing * Integration with Changelists * Supporting Cloud-based Code Review Systems * Alternat

Re: Server-side SavePoints [was: Subversion Design Contribution Question]

2017-11-01 Thread Julian Foad
Julian Foad wrote: Have we thought of the server-side possibility? Of course. [...] I realized what I said can come across as rather critical and dismissive of the idea. I hope that you or others will be equally critical of my work. My start on shelving is nothing more than a thin wrapper aroun

Re: Shelving: beyond text changes

2017-11-01 Thread Julian Foad
Julian Foad wrote: == What next? == [...] Re. checkpointing: I only gave a brief synopsis of what a really simple v1 "checkpointing" might look like, not really enough to judge how well it will work. I will spend up to a day or so thinking through the details and write a specific design so w

Re: svn commit: r1814018 - /subversion/site/staging/quick-start.html

2017-11-01 Thread Daniel Shahaf
lyalya...@apache.org wrote on Wed, 01 Nov 2017 22:44 +: > +++ subversion/site/staging/quick-start.html Wed Nov 1 22:44:22 2017 > @@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ we recommend you do a Web search for -The repository acts as a single source of truth and – as a central > -storage – it contains the complete