On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Clifford Yapp <cliffy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! I'm looking at using the subversion libraries to handle data, and > I would like to integrate them into an application for > revisioning/managing computer aided design geometry information. > > Looking over the client API, it seems to assume that a checkout will > result in a file in a filesystem path (e.g. a working checkout). Is > there a way to request in C the straight-up data from the svn > repository without bothering the disk, e.g. checkout svn checkout > file://repository/datafile1 and have it returned as a char * array or > some other binary form in C? Based on my current understanding I > would have to checkout the file in question to a working directory and > read it in from there to get it in memory - is that true or is there > another, lower level API that doesn't require that step? I have a > situation where I have potentially thousands of files, some large and > some small, that all need to be individually tracked and then combined > into single larger files. It can really kill performance to have to > involve the filesystem and write out lots of individual tiny files - > ideally I'd like to send information to/from the repository using what > would in effect be an in-geometry-storage-file checkout. > > Any help appreciated - thanks!
wget or curl can pull the data from an upstream HTTP or HTTPS based repository and pipe it to stdout, if that's enough information. What you're describing really sounds like a database operation, though, not a source control operation.
