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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	davidbarr@google.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a svnrdump-simulator replaying a dump file for testing.
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:38:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8veakyar.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343074107-23262-1-git-send-email-florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com> (Florian Achleitner's message of "Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:08:26 +0200")

Florian Achleitner <florian.achleitner.2.6.31@gmail.com> writes:

> To ease testing without depending on a reachable svn server, this
> compact python script mimics parts of svnrdumps behaviour.
> It requires the remote url to start with sim://.
> Eventual slashes at the end of the url are stripped.

s/ventual/xcess/ perhaps?

> The url specifies the path of the svn dump file (as created by
> svnrdump). Selectable parts of it, or the whole file, are written
> to stdout. The part is selectable by giving start and end revision
> on the command line.
>
> Start and end revisions can be specified on the command line
> (-rSTART:END, like for svnrdump).
> Only revisions between START and excluding END are replayed from
> the dumpfile specified by the url. END can also be HEAD.
>
> If the start revision specified on the command line doesn't exist
> in the dump file, it returns 1.
> This emulates the behaviour of svnrdump when START>HEAD, i.e. the
> requested start revision doesn't exist on the server.

Much more understandable than before.

> To allow using the same dump file for simulating multiple
> incremental imports the highest visible revision can be limited by
> setting the environment variable SVNRMAX to that value. This
> effectively limits HEAD to simulate the situation where higher
> revs don't exist yet.

It is unclear how this is different from giving the ceiling by
specifying it as the "END" in -rSTART:END command line.  Is this
feature really needed?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-23 20:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-22 21:03 GSOC remote-svn Florian Achleitner
2012-07-22 21:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-23  9:42   ` Florian Achleitner
2012-07-23 12:04     ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-23 12:44     ` [PATCH] Add a svnrdump-simulator replaying a dump file for testing Florian Achleitner
2012-07-23 12:59       ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-23 13:16         ` Florian Achleitner
2012-07-23 13:16         ` Florian Achleitner
2012-07-23 16:24           ` Matthieu Moy
2012-07-23 19:28             ` Florian Achleitner
2012-07-23 19:46               ` Matthieu Moy
2012-07-23 20:02                 ` Jeff King
2012-07-23 15:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-23 20:08         ` Florian Achleitner
2012-07-23 20:38           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-07-24 19:50             ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-25  6:20               ` Florian Achleitner
2012-07-24 12:06       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-07-23  7:59 ` GSOC remote-svn Matthieu Moy
2012-07-23 11:59   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-07-23  9:42 ` Florian Achleitner

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