Re: [PATCH 2/5] svn-fe: allow svnadmin instead of svnrdump in svn helper

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> Dmitry Ivankov writes:

>> Hm, I don't see much differences.
>> Data format is the same SVN-fs-dump-format-version: 3. In my case I
>> observe following differences:
>> - svnadmin writes sha1 checksums along with md5 ones
>> - hashtable dumps can have different elements dump order
>> - svnrdump sets Prop-delta: true for empty props
>> - text deltas can be encoded differently (does it affect svn:ann?)
>> My svnadmin is version 1.6.16 (r1073529)
>> svnrdump is from r1135490
>>
>> Anything else I'm missing in a simple dump of a repository root?
>
> Yes, those are the differences.

Are the differences documented somewhere (e.g., the svnbook)?

>>> I saw this '--username', '--password' in other patches too.  I'm
>>> probably missing context, but I'm curious to know why this is required
>>> and what you're planning to do to fix it in the future.
[...]
>> It's a placeholder for quick local patch if anyone wants to test a
>> repo with permissions.

I suspect it snuck in from tests with the cvs2svn repository. :)

Do you know another small repository that's entertaining to test with?

>> In future it should be allowed to configure credentials in
>> corresponding remote section of git.config

Yep, something along those lines sounds sensible.  In the short term,
I think there's been some talk of a configuration option to override
the svnrdump command; that could be used to pass credentials.

Inspired by the old HTTP convention, I tried

	svn log http://Guest:@cvs2svn.tigris.org/svn/cvs2svn

and

	svn log http://Guest:pass@cvs2svn.tigris.org/svn/cvs2svn

but alas, neither works.